1.   To offer peak performance in providing the electronic data and paperless trading global investors expect, Shanghai plans telecommunications networks as powerful as those in Manhattan.

2.   And as the economy begins to slow at last, the question becomes more urgent because slower growth may persuade global investors to put their money elsewhere.

3.   An interest rate rise would help fight German inflation by luring global investors to the mark, giving it a boost.

4.   And global investors are jittery.

5.   -- Global investor George Soros on the need for France to cut state spending and public deficits in order to let interest rates drop naturally.

6.   A Fed rate increase would likely help the dollar by luring global investors to deposits in the currency.

7.   A higher rate would help the mark by making some assets, including bonds, more alluring to global investors.

8.   A strong report could hurt the currency by depressing stocks and bonds, raising worries that global investors will dump their dollar holdings.

9.   A rate increase would likely help the dollar by luring global investors to deposits in the currency.

10.   A smaller deficit shores up confidence in American assets and lures global investors to the dollars they need to buy them.