91.   Until then, the stock market was sluggish, showing modest gains, and professional investors described their clients and colleagues as entranced.

92.   Well before it collapsed, regulators and some professional investors worried that the system of oversight was breaking down.

93.   When professional investors got scared, individual investors saw an opportunity and stabilized the market.

94.   Why, then, are many professional investors reluctant buyers when they hear good news about a company?

95.   Witness the announcement Tuesday that the Nasdaq Stock Market intends to offer a high-technology trading system being backed by mutual funds and other professional investors.

96.   Individual investors who trade stocks outside the traditional market hours are apparently paying a steep price to play in an arena once open only to large professional investors.

97.   It provides individual investors with tools available to institutions and professional investors.

98.   Professional investors may want to get their trades in early today.

99.   Professional investors overseas apparently were not impressed.

100.   Rumors of the warning hit Wall Street Friday, but many analysts and professional investors had been expecting it for several quarters, said Forelli.