1.   Also helping pharmaceutical stocks were optimistic statements from experts at a U.K. conference on AIDS that new combinations of drugs could make HIV a chronic rather than deadly disease.

2.   Among the leaders were financial services companies, propelled by merger news, and pharmaceutical stocks, lifted by a positive outlook for new drug products.

3.   Among the leaders were financial-services companies, propelled by merger news, and pharmaceutical stocks, lifted by a positive outlook for new drug products.

4.   And most big pharmaceutical stocks were good performers.

5.   Autumn is typically an active time for biotechology and pharmaceutical stocks, since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration holds more meetings which can lead to drug approvals.

6.   Also benefiting pharmaceutical stocks were optimistic statements from experts at a U.K. conference on AIDS that new combinations of drugs could make HIV a chronic rather than deadly disease.

7.   Computing yield ratios on pharmaceutical stocks ranked just ahead of solving the Rwanda refugee problem on her must-do list.

8.   Colorado stocks like Tele-Communications Inc. and U S West Inc. fell, as technology, communications and pharmaceutical stocks slid lower across the market.

9.   Eaton Vance Worldwide Health Sciences owns lots of big, global pharmaceutical stocks, just as every other health care fund does.

10.   Gains in pharmaceutical stocks tempered the decline.