31.   For example, some online brokers allow investors in foreign companies to trade only in American depository receipts.

32.   Following a strong gain Thursday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, American depository receipts of Japanese companies turned higher.

33.   Foreign companies are traded on U.S. markets as American depository receipts -- certificates issued by a U.S. bank and traded as domestic shares.

34.   Foreign investors interested in regional stocks favor buying them through American or global depository receipts listed in London, New York or Frankfurt, where there is more liquidity.

35.   Hogar is selling its shares abroad as American depository receipts.

36.   Hogar, the leading low-income house builder in western Mexico, is selling its shares abroad as American depository receipts.

37.   In part because of differing accounting standards, few German companies are listed on U.S. exchanges, even in the form of American depository receipts.

38.   In the U.S., the shares are listed in the form of American depository receipts, or ADRs, and have been actively traded.

39.   In the United States, Laura Ashley stock can be bought in the form of American depository receipts, but they are rarely traded.

40.   Individual investors looking to put money into Latin America this year should consider a mix of mutual funds and American depository receipts, or ADRs.