61.   The Chicago-based investment bank clears trades for hundreds of securities firms but does little with the professional trading firms served by Sage.

62.   The document asks whether trading firms should lose key privileges, such as freedom from stamp duty, if they used Tradepoint.

63.   The losses are for the trading firm and less for the futures industry itself, some traders say.

64.   The move sparked concern other trading firms could fail in Japan, the largest buyer of U.S. agricultural products.

65.   The New York City-based trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald says it will also have a system ready to list live orders for trading in limited partnerships by March.

66.   The moment that rival trading firms and other customers at Enron began to lose confidence in the company, its business dried up.

67.   The president did not mention the Houston-based energy trading firm of Enron by name.

68.   The settlement complements a Justice Department anti-trust settlement last month with Nasdaq trading firms that will result in tape-recording of many conversations by over-the-counter traders.

69.   The tax increase is particularly hurting carmakers and trading firms, as well as housing investment, Matsushima said.

70.   Today, no trading firms notified the exchange of pending deliveries, their first opportunity to settle July contracts.