11.   It also emerged today that the bank notified the Japanese Ministry of Finance of the losses weeks before it told U.S. regulators about the problem.

12.   It would be many months and millions more dollars in losses before the sale of the mines was completed earlier this year.

13.   Leach properly wants the fund to devise ways to make foreign investors bear at least some loss before the IMF comes to their rescue.

14.   Network executives have swallowed large losses before on events like the Olympics and Major League Baseball.

15.   Operating cash flow loss is loss before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

16.   On Saturday, Jinqiao reported a net loss before exceptional items.

17.   Some investors said any declines in bond prices next week will be temporary losses before a rally later in the year.

18.   Soybean futures were lower for most of the day before erasing the losses shortly before the market closed.

19.   Stocks tend to do well in January because investors have ceased selling their losers to generate a tax loss before the end of the year.

20.   Sunbeam Corp. reported a fourth-quarter loss before charges and said it has wrapped up the cost-cutting part of its restructuring plan.