1.   Matters referred to in relation to the current recession include the provisions for companies to carry back trading losses.

2.   And the announcement of its trading losses is the first solid indication this week that American firms may start to take hits in that region.

3.   Authorities have charged the brokerage with compensating the blackmailer for trading losses and favoring him over other Nomura shareholders.

4.   Bankers Trust has run big trading losses in foreign markets including Russia, and analysts say it would be hard to spot other problems in advance of a merger.

5.   Banco Matrix SA, a Brazilian investment bank, denied a report that said it was close to collapse because of trading losses.

6.   Bankers Trust New York Corp. said it was not planning to make any disclosures regarding trading losses.

7.   Brazilian financial firms were said to be on the verge of insolvency because of such trading losses.

8.   A letter left behind by Barton suggested he was depressed about trading losses, police said Friday.

9.   A week earlier New York regulators, stung by the widespread cover-up of the trading losses at Daiwa, proposed a similar requirement.

10.   Also weighing on the market was speculation that major city bank Fuji Bank Ltd. suffered from trading losses.