31.   Credit Foncier will, over the next three months, seek a buyer willing to assume its obligations without government aid, Finance Ministry officials said.

32.   Currently, Natwest Bancorp and numerous smaller institutions in the region are seeking buyers.

33.   Debt-ridden government seeks buyers for dams, power plants, irrigation canals.

34.   Del Monte, which was nearly acquired by a shady Mexican financier three years ago, has been seeking a buyer for some time.

35.   Demand from European investors may have helped the Treasury as it sought buyers for its five-year notes, traders said.

36.   Earlier this month, St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch said it was closing Eagle Snacks, but would continue to seek a buyer for Cape Cod.

37.   Eichenfield said Finova is looking to expand its core business and management is not seeking a buyer for the company as a whole.

38.   Dumas, managing director in the private client service group, said yesterday that neither Bear Sterns nor he have been engaged to seek a buyer for Manex.

39.   Enron said it may also seek other buyers.

40.   Equitable said in December, after efforts to sell the business outright had failed, that it would close to new business and seek a buyer.