1.   Healthy results from Yahoo!, the internet sector leader, failed to lift the gloom in the technology sector.

2.   Technology stocks as a whole have not done nearly as well as the sector leaders like Microsoft and Intel Corp., but they have managed a respectable climb.

3.   ANGRY investors of failed stock brokerages yesterday hurled eggs at pictures of financial sector leaders in protest at their alleged inability to monitor companies.

4.   Aquino arrived in South Africa Saturday for a week-long visit during which she will meet political, media and health sector leaders.

5.   Referring to the post-nuclear tests perspective in the sub-continent, he said the sector leaders can try to harness the eventual market potentials arising out of the situation.

6.   The broadcast said the proposal was contained in letters sent Monday through Panmunjom to South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, political party leaders and various sector leaders.

7.   Interest-rate sensitive finance sector leaders declined.

8.   But other analysts remain cautious about the likely impact of deregulation, particularly on the competitiveness of existing sector leaders.

9.   But Venezuelan business sector leader Pedro Carmona warned Wednesday the measure should have been brought in gradually within the existing system of margins.

10.   Other steelmakers, including sector leader Nippon Steel Corp. and Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd., also rose in a wave of buying, brokers said.