The analyst was trying to keep his voice level.

Armed with enormous amounts of information about past market trends, analysts try to predict the future.

IT is the newest economic statistics that usually get all the attention as investors and analysts try to gauge the health of the economy.

Many technical analysts try to be equally disciplined in securing profits.

Economists and analysts have been trying to assess what kind of economic slowdown might be in store, but no consensus has developed.

Some private analysts using big computer models still try to make estimates.

The analysts then try to use historical data to estimate the relative frequency of those variables.

Outside the fixed-income market, analysts are trying to anticipate which stocks could be vulnerable.

Some analysts said there was little that Germany could do but try to stay above the fray.

The stocks of both companies have fluctuated recently, as analysts have tried to guess which company would come out ahead.