31.   With less trading volume, orders to sell dollars have a larger effect on exchange rates.

32.   Zurich prosecutors last week launched a preliminary probe into possible insider trading in Elco Looser shares after trading volume surged in the days before of the takeover announcement.

33.   Adding volatility, trading volume was relatively thin ahead of the weekend, giving fewer transactions more influence on the overall market.

34.   ADDS Russel index, trading volume.

35.   As in other recent sessions, the drops were exaggerated by very light trading volume.

36.   But a holiday mood kept trading volume among the lowest levels in more than two years.

37.   But trading volume was very light, which tends to exaggerate price moves.

38.   Even so, market watchers are looking for trading volume to be rather light again today, as investors await the end of the Fed meeting.

39.   Even so, market-watchers are looking for trading volume to be rather light again today, as investors await the end of the Fed meeting.

40.   In Hong Kong, share prices fell slightly as trading volumes plunged to their lowest levels in two weeks.