1.   Analysts said lower mortgage rates have helped to spur demand for housing even as other parts of the economy have slowed.

2.   Governments cut interest rates to spur demand.

3.   Meanwhile, new technologies such as personal communications services -- a new generation of cellular phone -- also will spur demand.

4.   This has forced airlines to discount fares heavily in order to spur demand.

5.   Also spurring demand for stocks and bonds was easing concern about the path of inflation, traders said.

6.   Also, IPOs are usually sold at a discount to their competitors to spur investor demand.

7.   Analysts expect Rubin to urge Japan to further stimulate its weak economy, which would spur demand for imports and help rectify global imbalances in trade and financial flows.

8.   Analysts said the lower memory prices could start to spur increasing demand for personal computers in the second half of this year.

9.   Analysts said the expanding U.S. economy plus the likelihood that European interest rates will fall further, driving corporate growth, will spur demand for computers and software.