11.   When simply measuring which banks suffered the least compared with their performance the year earlier, JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch easily came out on top.

12.   Banamex and Bancomer will suffer the least from lost interest because they can gather low-cost deposits through large branch networks, said Harlow.

13.   Macedonia and Slovenia, the two former Yugoslav republics which suffered the least in the Balkan conflict, pledged Wednesday to strengthen ties and boost economic cooperation.