51.   Moving quickly to find a joint venture partner for the trading operation is critical because the traders will leave the company if the process drags on, he said.

52.   Niehoff, meantime, coordinated an effort to return OppenheimerFunds to regular trading operations as soon as possible.

53.   Now, the broadband trading marketplace has largely collapsed, and the energy companies have closed their broadband trading operations.

54.   On Monday, Williams Cos. announced that it would sharply reduce its trading operations, and it forecast that earnings would be considerably lower because of diminished trading.

55.   On the corporate side, Citigroup has already been scaling back its trading operation.

56.   On Wednesday, El Paso Corp. announced that it would cut its trading operations drastically.

57.   One morning in November, Bodily turned on his computer to find that the company had shut down its online trading operation.

58.   OWNER OF CURRENCY FIRM INDICTED An indictment accused the owner of a currency trading operation in the World Trade Center of fraud and conspiracy.

59.   Over the last few weeks, El Paso and Aquila Inc. have announced plans to sharply scale back their trading operations.

60.   Richard A. Grasso, chairman of the stock exchange, has said that the exchange has to consolidate its trading operations into a single modern complex to compete globally.