81.   To help Japanese brokerages deal with intensified competition and attract more investors, the panel urged the government to promote other reforms.

82.   Venezuelan stocks fell, their first decline in seven sessions, as the failure of a Japanese brokerage rattled stock markets worldwide.

83.   Yamaichi and other Japanese brokerages are facing declining trading volume and share prices, as well as increased competition from non-Japanese firms.

84.   Yamaichi and other Japanese brokerages face declining trading volume and share prices, as well as increased competition from non-Japanese firms.

85.   Yamaichi is the second Japanese brokerage, after Nomura Securities Co., to be barred from government bond operations.

86.   Yamaichi Securities Co., the big Japanese brokerage house that has been teetering for months under huge debts, appears ready to close its doors.

87.   Yet the new product will also help Japanese brokerages, which had their worst earnings in three decades last year, by giving them a new product to sell.

88.   Other Japanese brokerages have said they would consider restructuring drives, including major jobs cuts.

89.   A former police detective was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday for receiving bribes from a major Japanese brokerage in return for tipoffs.

90.   Also Thursday, Tokyo prosecutors raided the homes of top officials of Yamaichi Securities Co., a major Japanese brokerage, on suspicion of doing business with corporate extortionists.