1.  As for national indexes, U.S. stocks fell from records as shares of paper and other economically sensitive companies dropped on concern that profits will lag.

2.  Automakers and paper producers, the companies most sensitive to an economic slowdown, paced the decline.

3.  Banks, among the companies most sensitive to rising rates, fell, led by Citicorp.

4.  Banks, among the companies most sensitive to rising rates, fell.

5.  Banks like NationsBank Corp., utilities and other interest-rate sensitive companies paced the advance.

6.  A rate cut would have juiced up the economy and given earnings of economically sensitive companies a boost.

7.  A rate cut would have juiced up the economy, which would have favored economically sensitive companies.

8.  After budget talks were called off late in the day, shares of interest-rate sensitive companies pared their gains.

9.  But the recent rate increases have hurt interest-rate sensitive companies like financial institutions and old-fashioned industrial concerns by increasing their costs of capital.

10.  Companies sensitive to lower interest rates did well also.