1.   It also owns an insurance company, Fata, and has a stake in an ailing private bank.

2.   It may also come to the rescue of ailing banks.

3.   Americans have as much to fear, he argued, from a weak China whose ailing banks and bankrupt enterprises could undermine the world economy.

4.   As part of that plan, Indonesia agreed to close down sixteen smaller ailing banks immediately.

5.   Bonds also suffered from concern that Japan may sell Treasury securities to raise cash to bolster ailing banks.

6.   Bonderman, through his TPG Partners Investment Group, teamed with Branson to buy the MGM chain of movie theaters from ailing French bank Credit Lyonnais this summer.

7.   BID directors have said the Central Bank forced it to take over two other ailing banks against their wishes, making the bank rescue infeasible.

8.   Bonds plunged and stocks surged yesterday on expectations the government will assist ailing banks with the use of public funds.

9.   Bonderman, through his TPG Partners Investment Group, teamed with Branson to buy the MGM chain of U.K. movie theaters from ailing French bank Credit Lyonnais last summer.

10.   Bonds earlier slumped after Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto revived concern Japan may sell Treasuries to prop up ailing banks.