1.   This amounts to compulsory purchase, but holds out the prospect that the shares will rise.

2.   Shares have risen sharply since the effective collapse of the European exchange rate mechanism at the end of July as interest rates throughout continental Europe have come down.

3.   If real product wages rise more slowly than productivity then the profit share rises.

4.   Output would have slowed had the investment share not risen.

5.   Almost two shares rose for every one stock that fell on the New York Stock Exchange.

6.   Almost five shares rose for every four that fell on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

7.   Almost four shares rose for every one that fell on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

8.   Almost two shares rose for every one that fell on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

9.   Almost five shares rose for every one that fell.