21.   One gauge of the current investor fear of Latin investments is the widening spread between the rates its Brady bonds pay and equivalent U.S. Treasuries.

22.   Only about a tenth of its money is made today from the conventional banking business of earning an interest rate spread between borrowing and lending.

23.   Only three market-makers trade the stock, creating a wide spread between the prices where they are willing to buy and sell the stock.

24.   Rising interest rates are bad for banks because they shrink the profit spread between the interest they pay to depositors and the interest they earn from loans.

25.   Some managers also view mortgages as a bargain because yield spreads between the bonds and Treasuries, one measure of relative value, widened so much by Wednesday.

26.   Spread between layers of cake.

27.   Spread between slices and cut in half.

28.   Spread between slightly warm cake layers, piercing each layer as you stack them.

29.   That could result in a narrower yield spread between U.S. and German securities.

30.   That indicates the gains and losses were evenly spread between the large, liquid stocks preferred by foreign investors, and the smaller stocks favored by the locals.