31.   Certificates, usually issued by agencies or quasi-agencies of federal or provincial governments, are increasingly being abandoned for preferred shares as companies seek more international investors.

32.   Citicorp shares rose after the New York bank announced investors chose to swap all their convertible preferred shares into common stock.

33.   Closed-end funds are able to offer higher returns because of their use of leverage through the issuance of preferred shares.

34.   Dias Leite and GP Capital Partners retain their preferred shares in Multicanal, Multicanal said.

35.   Each preferred share will be convertible into one common share after one-and-a-half-years from the issue date.

36.   Each unit will include a preferred share in Unibanco and a Class B preferred share in its majority owner, Unibanco Holdings SA.

37.   Eight HPI non-convertible preferred shares will be offered for every Marzotto preferred share.

38.   Earnings per share rose faster than net income because First Union bought back its preferred shares in March.

39.   Echo Bay this quarter also converted two million preferred shares into more than five million common shares, which will dilute results.

40.   Even if the government decides to buy preferred shares, that would only help keep banks from tightening their lending to companies, he said.