1.   Also driving prices lower is fading concern that a truckers strike in Colombia will disrupt coffee shipments.

2.   Analysts said there is fading concern about higher interest rates and better-than-expected earnings from Yahoo Inc., an Internet bellwether.

3.   Corn futures were pressured by profit-taking on fading concern about potential frost damage to the U.S. crop.

4.   England, despite some areas of racial tension and fading concerns over the handling of foot-and-mouth disease, is contented.

5.   Fading concern that rising interest rates would erode bank profits helped the shares, traders said.

6.   Fading concern that the cold snap and snow expected this week in the Midwest would damage dormant crops there also drove prices lower, Weather Services said.

7.   French bonds posted their steepest declines in nine months as funds flowed into stocks amid fading concerns about Korean debt and signs French economic growth is improving.

8.   In NEW YORK, platinum and palladium fell amid fading concern that supplies from Russia will be disrupted next year.

9.   In the short run, the dollar is unlikely to drop thanks to fading concern about an imminent rise in rates, traders said.

10.   Natural gas futures slumped amid fading concern a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico would disrupt production at offshore platforms there.