Traders said there were no big developments to account for the high volume, but they did say investors increasingly feel the economy is recovering steadily.

Prices fell the minute the exchange opened, but then they recovered steadily.

It lost money again in 1991, recovering steadily thereafter.

"In broad terms, the economy has been recovering steadily," he said at a news conference.

Japan's government raised its assessment of the country's economy and said the economy was recovering steadily.

Since then the population has been recovering steadily except in 1960 when the population increased by 2,000 people.

Profit levels are now expected to recover steadily, and I believe they will regain their competitiveness within the next three years.

But then the rate steadily recovered, reaching 9.4 percent in the early 1970's.

We saw that the market reacted immediately and prices recovered steadily.

The economy has been recovering steadily since then.