Stocks with higher dividends keep luring investors ahead of the fiscal year end.

Look for retail investors and brokerage dealers to pinpoint individual shares that are liquid and carry a theme.

Fund managers don't want to hand investors high dividends in the year 1999 but if they take them over the course of the year 2000, it doesn't hurt as bad.

The fog has died away.

Domestic institutions were looking for reasons to unwind a good slice of their long positions in the tech sector. The yen and the Nasdaq gave them two very good ones.

The market looks ready to break 10,000.