51.   Tokyo stocks erased early losses Friday morning, rising slightly on buying of bank shares.

52.   Wall Street offered some encouragement Wednesday, when shares erased early losses and moved into positive territory.

53.   Yanagisawa also said that the public fund injections would give the banks enough capital to erase losses on stock holdings.

54.   An Asia Securities Trading analyst said late speculative buying had erased earlier losses prompted by the unofficial export data announcement.

55.   Share prices here moved slightly higher early on Thursday as support for the futures index and an overnight recovery on Wall Street erased early losses, dealers said.