81.   Its customers can trade in many financial instruments and receive a variety of financial advice, not to mention mortgage and private banking services.

82.   Like many hedge funds, Long-Term Capital was a major user of derivatives, which are financial instruments that derive their value from stocks, bonds or currencies.

83.   Most financial instruments are expected to migrate to a handful of dominant financial centers.

84.   Much of the activity involved arbitrage, which is an attempt to profit from buying and selling similar financial instruments having price discrepancies.

85.   Most wealthy people have been using such financial instruments for years, she said.

86.   Money market funds generally contain Treasury bills and other short-term financial instruments, making yields fairly uniform across the industry.

87.   Morgan is a leading provider of the complex financial instruments known as derivatives and has been an aggressive advocate of looser regulatory controls over the lucrative products.

88.   OM Gruppen is a Stockholm-based company that operates exchanges and clearing operations for financial instruments such as options and futures.

89.   On Wall Street the banking profits come from whizz-kids dreaming up financial instruments too complex for their elders to grasp.

90.   One possibility is the use of options or other financial instruments to put a limit on how much prices can increase.