71.   Eddie George, governor of the Bank of England, said the trader essentially had bet that Japanese stocks were going to go up, and was disastrously wrong.

72.   Gasoline contracts came under steady selling pressure as traders bet that refining profits would fall.

73.   Grain and soybean futures prices surged Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade as traders bet on more wet weather in the Midwest over the long Memorial Day weekend.

74.   Meanwhile, crude prices continued to drop as traders bet that any prolonged stoppage would be made up for by other oil producers.

75.   Some traders had bet that the dollar, which recently had tumbled to record lows vs. the mark and Japanese yen, would fall further.

76.   Soybean traders also bet the Agriculture Department will cut its year-end production figures.

77.   The dollar was lower against the yen as traders bet that U.S. interest rates would hold steady.

78.   The U.S. dollar rose against the yen Thursday morning as traders bet that the Group of Seven industrialized nations was unlikely to intervene to defend the yen.

79.   Traders are betting Rhone-Poulenc Rorer will up the ante.

80.   Traders also were betting cool weather approaching wheat growing regions could damage the crop, said Dean Witter, Discover and Co. analyst Jerry Gidel.