Initially yesterday, two economic reports had encouraged some dollar buying.

But the report had been encouraging in some respects.

Among other things, the report encouraged the publication of forward-looking or predictive information.

The report encouraged swift action to preserve the spectacular fossils.

His hope and experience is that his reports encourage people with knowledge about a case to tell an investigator.

But recent reports have been encouraging enough to cause many forecasters to raise their growth predictions for this year.

But much as the report encouraged officials, it also brought warnings that the best was probably over.

The report encouraged the administration to curb acid rain emissions.

This report encourages the Commission to pursue its efforts and even to go further on some points.

Those reports will not encourage the Fed to raise interest rates, and may give policy makers the latitude to lower them.