31.   A consortium including Japanese trading company Itochu Corp., oil companies Japan Energy Corp. and Teikoku Oil Ltd. will sign a oil drilling contract with the government of Azerbaijan.

32.   A Russian delegation is in Tokyo to complete negotiations on resuming shipments of the metals after a five-month halt, Japanese trading companies said.

33.   A number of industry experts played down predictions by some large energy trading companies that the reduction in the number of traders would hurt markets and push prices higher.

34.   Aeon has backing from Japanese banks and trading companies, including Dai-ichi Kango Bank, Mitsubishi Corp. and Itochu Corp.

35.   All have hooked up with Japanese trading companies serving as local partners.

36.   All the trading companies buy and sell trillions of yen worth of gold and other precious metals each year.

37.   Both women, who are homemakers in Gaithersburg, Md., are related to an employee of a trading company owned by Ng and Trie.

38.   But at the same time, it announced a sweeping review of the futures exchange and promised to enact tight new rules over trading companies.

39.   But at the same time, it announced a sweeping review of the futures exchange and will enact tight new rules over trading companies.

40.   But few expected that the chief executive of an online trading company would be the one to generate one of the biggest margin calls ever.