1.   And the end of the war in Kosovo has relieved some of the tension that gripped financial markets for the last two months.

2.   As the year ended, a high degree of confusion seemed to grip the market, with both buyers and sellers unsure about pricing.

3.   Brady bonds have been on a roller coaster ride this week, rising one day and falling the next as panic and confidence alternatively grip the market.

4.   Most high wine prices, however, are driven by the speculative fever currently gripping the market.

5.   Stocks made a strong run at another record Thursday until second thoughts gripped the market and Wall Street did an abrupt about-face.

6.   The reports helped ease concerns about earnings prospects that gripped the market last week.

7.   Traders said that the political uncertainty that gripped the market late in January after reports of a sex scandal in the White House was back to haunt them again.

8.   Earnings worries are again gripping the market.

9.   Even with the decline, it was the second straight day without any of the monumental mood swings that had gripped the market over the past week.

10.   Interest rate jitters still gripped markets and investors appeared to take little comfort in a decision today by the European Central Bank to hold interest rates steady.