11.   It ended its shareholder meeting last week with an elaborate video montage of the news coverage of its three days of trading halts in February.

12.   It bitterly complained to regulators, futilely seeking a trading halt.

13.   Keri Murphy, a company spokeswoman, said there was no company event to account for a trading halt early this morning.

14.   Markets also could extend normal trading hours, or shorten any late-afternoon trading halts, Lindsey said.

15.   McIntosh asked for a trading halt in its shares after the report.

16.   McIntosh asked for a trading halt of its shares after the report.

17.   Others say the Big Board should do away with trading halts altogether.

18.   SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt has argued that a trading halt can be triggered by too modest a decline in the Dow.

19.   Sundick said brokerage firms can decide at the end of the trading halt if they have enough information to resume trading.

20.   That was a follow-up to a National Association of Securities Dealers inquiry that forced Comparator to ask for a trading halt on Thursday.