51.   Many financial institutions have used profits from stock investment sales to finance those write-offs.

52.   Many of the funds that are paying the biggest distributions are funds specializing in technology stock investments, which have rallied strongly this year.

53.   Maybe it will show a moderately risky set of stock investments will raise the money you want.

54.   Money managers charge about twice as much per dollar of assets to manage stock investments as they do for bonds.

55.   Moreover, Japanese banks can use latent profits on stock investments to meet Bank for International Settlements capital adequacy requirements.

56.   Moreover, Japanese banks use latent profits on stock investments to meet Bank for International Settlements capital adequacy requirements.

57.   Mutual funds have to do this too, though they only report their lists of stock investments to their shareholders every six months.

58.   Of course, the most common counterpoint to stock investment is bond investment.

59.   Now, a combination of weak management, shrinking stock investments and loan shocks has left banks gasping for capital just as their borrowing costs surge.

60.   One of the major imponderables is whether these bonds will draw money from stock investments.