All three of these stories would imply falling bond prices, that is, rising interest rates.
As stock prices were rising, interest rates were also on the rise, more than offsetting Friday's declines.
But the stronger underlying theme is rising interest in techniques for reaching oil that is hard to get at.
"Just when there is rising interest among young people," Mr. Bookchin said, "we are shooting ourselves in the foot".
But a greater threat to the refinancing boom, said Orawin Velz, the senior economist for Fannie Mae, is rising interest rates.
Jacob Hsu, chief executive of Symbio, a contract engineering firm that does work for consumer electronics companies, said there was rising interest in set-top box technology among the traditional computing players.
"The excuse is rising interest rates," Goldman told Forbes.com.
There is rising interest in collaboration among supply chain partners in food and fibre supply chain management studies.
There is rising interest in genetic factors, as these likely explain a substantial portion of the inter-individual differences in pain responses [5].
