1.   Bond prices ended little changed, despite the implications of higher inflation in the retail sales report.

2.   Bond prices ended lower for a fourth day, retreating after an early rally faded.

3.   Bond prices ended higher for the fourth consecutive session Tuesday, pushing yields further into record-low territory and inducing more corporate borrowers to sell debt.

4.   Bond prices ended slightly lower as Ford Motor Co. completed the biggest corporate bond issue ever.

5.   After a three-day weekend, Treasury prices ended generally lower Tuesday.

6.   Cattle futures rose on speculation that wholesale beef prices may have ended a three-month slide, allowing meatpackers to pay higher prices for animals.

7.   Despite an agreement on federal budget negotiations, long-term Treasury prices ended lower Monday.

8.   Earnings for such large metal producers as WMC Ltd. or Comalco Ltd. may not decline so much as metal prices end their recent slide, he said.

9.   Earnings for large metal producers such as WMC Ltd. or Pasminco Ltd. may not decline so much as metal prices end their recent slide, he said.

10.   For the day, wheat futures prices ended steady at the Kansas City Board of Trade, while prices fell in Chicago.