1.   In Brussels, the Market set an all-time high, topping the record set last Wednesday, following encouraging corporate sales reports.

2.   It does seem to be on the whole a very encouraging report.

3.   Bond prices dropped and sent yields soaring after two encouraging economic reports failed to renew optimism economic growth and inflation are slowing.

4.   Despite an encouraging report showing a decline in wholesale inflation, analysts expect rates to push higher as the economy expands.

5.   Encouraging economic reports had little effect on prices.

6.   Hunter, with no stars begging to play for him, like Dean Smith, heard encouraging reports.

7.   Jim Motavalli looks at the state of the art in electric-car manufacturing, with encouraging reports on new, high-tech batteries and promising new vehicles.

8.   The encouraging report comes as the new government squares off with unions over a plan to sell state-controlled companies.

9.   There are also encouraging reports on the long search for a workable cancer vaccine and preliminary tests of drugs that starve tumors by cutting off their blood supply.

10.   There have been encouraging reports about ace Pedro Martinez and catcher Jason Varitek.