1.   Although the main indexes rose, declining shares outnumbered gainers.

2.   Decliners outnumbered gainers.

3.   Decliners outnumbered gainers by more than three to one.

4.   Decliners outnumbers gainers, however.

5.   Declining stocks were beginning to outnumber gainers with disturbing frequency, as were the stocks making new lows compared with those making new highs.

6.   Decliners outnumbered gainers by more than two to one, led by state-controlled utilities.

7.   Declining stocks outnumbered gainers by some seven-to-two.

8.   Losers outnumbered gainers by three to one.

9.   Losers outnumbered gainers by almost two-to-one in the price-weighted index that tracks shares of companies with operations in the state.

10.   Losers outnumbered gainers six-to-one in the price-weighted index that tracks shares of companies with operations in the state.