71.   The Belgium-based company recently opened an electricity trading operation in Houston.

72.   The company halted the spinoff late last year and recently repurchased all the shares in its energy trading operation.

73.   The conversion will take place after a new European Union directive permitting EU-based banks to set up branch offices and trading operations in any member nation.

74.   The exchange got an extra bump this week when Enron shut down its own Internet-based trading operation, EnronOnline.

75.   The fund invests, for example, in Ameritrade, which has a successful online trading operation as well as a profitable off-line brokerage business.

76.   The job of running the trading operation at Reliant Resources will now be the in hands of its new president, Stephen Naeve.

77.   The offer from the American Exchange may have had more appeal because it would keep the Philadelphia trading operations in place for up to five years.

78.   The port operation business complements existing warehouse and trading operations, and adds to stability of its earnings.

79.   The trading operation is not included in those filings because the company hopes to revive it by moving into an independent new company.

80.   The two companies refuse to comment on their trading operations.