1.   Banks and other lenders may head lower on concern that competition through lower lending rates will weigh on their profits.

2.   Financial stocks also headed lower, with sizable losses in American Express, Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase.

3.   Expectations bank deposit rates are headed lower later this year provides Chinese investors with a reason to buy stocks.

4.   German money-market rates are likely to head lower tomorrow, when the Bundesbank supplies its weekly round of credits to the German banking system.

5.   Mexican shares declined for the first time in four sessions as a rebound in U.S. bond yields and local interest rates fueled pessimism that company earnings are headed lower.

6.   Mexican stocks may rise for the fifth time in the last six sessions on rising optimism that interest rates are headed lower.

7.   Rates are seen heading lower in coming months because of the slowdown in the economy.

8.   Traders simply sold in massive quantities when they thought prices were heading lower, and then turned around and bought heavily when it appeared the trend had reversed direction.

9.   U.S. stocks are expected to gain for a sixth day on optimism that interest rates are headed lower, boosting the attraction of stock investments.

10.   Yesterday, a report in The Wall Street Journal said steel prices appear to be heading lower because of competition from low-cost mini-mills.