21.   Sumitomo said its losses resulted from a decade of unauthorized trading by its former chief copper trader, Yasuo Hamanaka, who was fired earlier this month.

22.   Stock regulators are investigating two brokerages and three former traders from one brokerage for possible illegal trading.

23.   SUIT ACCUSES OLDE OF BIAS A former trader at Olde Discount Brokerage accused the company of racial discrimination in a federal class-action lawsuit.

24.   Sumitomo attributed the losses to unauthorized trading in the past decade by its former chief copper trader, Yasuo Hamanaka.

25.   Sumitomo blames the loss on a decade of unauthorized transactions by its former chief copper trader, Yasuo Hamanaka.

26.   Sumitomo pinned the loss, the largest ever in financial markets, on unauthorized transactions by its former chief copper trader, Yasuo Hamanaka.

27.   The Bank of England report concluded that former Barings trader Leeson was responsible for the collapse of the British bank.

28.   The company attributed the loss to a decade of unauthorized trading by Yasuo Hamanaka, its former chief copper trader.

29.   The former trader, a U.K. citizen, has said he would prefer to be tried in his home country.

30.   The U.K. Serious Fraud Office blocked a private investor suit against former Barings trader Nick Leeson by taking over the case and dropping it.