1.   All three had good cash flow, and their stock prices posted double-digit percentage gains in the quarter.

2.   Coffee prices posted the steepest loss of the day, while copper rallied.

3.   Corn prices posted smaller gains because that crop is more fully developed.

4.   Gold prices posted their biggest gain in three weeks as falling U.S. stocks increased interest in gold as an alternative investment.

5.   In September, food prices posted the greatest increase of the sectors measured in the consumer price index.

6.   Investor concerns were rekindled in the last week as oil prices posted one of the steepest declines in a year.

7.   Last Friday, the market swooned after the government reported that producer prices had posted their biggest one-month gain in nine years.

8.   Municipal bond prices posted their biggest decline in more than a year as demand for tax-exempt securities faded.

9.   Producer prices posted an unexpected decline in September.

10.   Soybean futures prices posted a strong showing in Chicago on uncertainty about a Brazilian farm program and higher vegetable oil prices.