11.   By hooking up with a stock brokerage firm, Morgan, a powerhouse in investment banking, is looking for a way to get closer to the individual investor.

12.   By then, he had been barred from the stock brokerage business for some of his West Palm Beach finagling.

13.   Citicorp bought several brokerage firms in London, and the resulting explosion of cultural incompatibility soured it on the stock brokerage business to this day.

14.   Compare that with stock brokerages, in which one-third of all retail trades now take place online.

15.   Congress did give the SEC more money to better regulate burgeoning stock brokerages over the Internet and to chase investment scammers who quickly recognized the potential of the Web.

16.   Even as Mahathir criticized foreign stockbrokers, he liberalized foreign ownership of stock brokerages and telecom companies.

17.   Financial services companies such as banks, insurers, and stock brokerages face a higher standard under the new law than other businesses.

18.   Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim also denied that the five stock brokerages had defaulted on their payments.

19.   For two decades, Congress has sought to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act, which created barriers between banks, stock brokerage and other financial firms.

20.   He also denied speculation that the securities regulator yesterday raided stock brokerages in an effort to determine which investors had been short-selling Malaysian stocks.