11.   In Canadian financial circles, Walsh was transformed from loser to legend.

12.   Islam is gaining converts in Western financial circles -- and the appeal, if not quite holy, is universal.

13.   Once the money is in Mexico, traffickers can place profits in bank accounts or businesses, slipping it into legitimate financial circles.

14.   Questions about his succession and how that could change the group have also been cropping up in financial circles.

15.   Still more rumors in Southeast Asian financial circles had him in a Malaysian hospital, or sailing off the eastern coast of Malaysia.

16.   The announcement stunned financial circles.

17.   The fearful talk in Tokyo financial circles for more than a month has been the possible collapse of the banking system.

18.   The high returns he earned made him not only a legend in financial circles nationwide but a hero to local politicians desperate to do more with less.

19.   The raid was the latest and by far the most dramatic in a series of investigations by Tokyo prosecutors aimed at purging corruption in Japanese financial circles.

20.   Though both men are avid Democrats and have spent their careers in New York financial circles, they said they had not been close friends before.