51.   DDI and Wharf began talks on the venture, which also involved Japanese trading company Tomen Corp., last November.

52.   Customer service has become an important variable that separates the successful online trading companies from those that received a below-average ranking.

53.   Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Group Plc said its Canadian branch bought Toronto-based DFI Securities Inc., an institutional equity sales, research and trading company.

54.   Dolgalyov had worked as the director of a local agricultural trading company, and had a good connection in Chechnya who was close to the local government.

55.   Each receiver has worked in the interest of a different creditor, critics say, with the latest favoring a Moscow-based trading company called Evraz Holding.

56.   Discount brokerage firm Charles Schwab and online trading company Ameritrade also were continuing to take orders that will be processed when the markets reopen.

57.   Enron and other major trading companies denied the accusation, but there were demands for a full-scale investigation.

58.   Enron is also a natural gas pipeline and trading company, and builds power plants and pipelines in other countries.

59.   Even before the merger was announced, Enron had lost some of its employees to other energy trading companies, Ronn said.

60.   Enron is a national energy trading company and its chairman, Kenneth L. Lay, was a leading financial backer of Bush.