11.   But some big brokerage firms that sell mutual funds are wondering how long that will last.

12.   By the close of trading Wednesday, stocks of big brokerages like Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette all posted gains.

13.   Company executives were buzzing about the prospect of selling to big brokerages, as CyBerCorp did with Schwab.

14.   Earlier this year, Charles Schwab pulled back from a plan to provide delayed access to reports from a number of big brokerage firms.

15.   Doley is convinced that a good number of the recently opened broker-dealers are little more than fronts for big brokerages.

16.   Few big brokerage firms follow it.

17.   Fears that other big brokerages also paid a gangster hush money have made brokerages the worst-performing industry on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since the scandal broke.

18.   He also bought stock in other big brokerages, the Japanese press says.

19.   He said that many of the people complaining about soft dollars are connected with these big brokerage firms that sell their own research.

20.   In July the big brokerage was barred from selling new government bonds until the end of the year.