21.   Financial traders are watching events in Italy closely as markets open Monday.

22.   It later moved into European parliamentary houses and through the high-tech systems of big companies and financial traders.

23.   Many financial traders had expected a three-quarters point increase as part of a U.S. effort to keep inflation under control.

24.   Neither Morgan Stanley nor the Securities and Futures Authority, which regulates financial traders in Britain, would discuss specifics of the irregularities.

25.   Some financial traders predicted a close outcome in the local races could send the lira into further turmoil.

26.   Some financial traders had feared a half-point increase in rates.

27.   The victory for Dini in the Senate was anticipated by financial traders and helped pull up the lira, which has recently hit record lows against the German mark.

28.   While the decision was largely expected, the dollar weakened because some financial traders were expecting a steeper increase.

29.   While fallen financial trader Nick Leeson is counting prison bars for covering up massive losses that sank Barings bank, entrepreneurs in Singapore are cashing in on his notoriety.

30.   The German justice ministry on Tuesday authorised the extradition to Singapore of the former financial trader Nick Leeson, ending eight months of uncertainty.