1.   And smaller brokerage firms had long pushed for sharing so they could offer clients the thousands of listings from the big brokerage firms.

2.   Authorities have yet to seriously investigate other big brokerages even though some have admitted they also dealt with the same racketeer.

3.   Big brokerage houses like the idea.

4.   Big brokerages also fell.

5.   Big brokerage firms have used them to pressure New York to keep costs down.

6.   Big brokerage houses were pummeled by small firms in places like Jersey City and Brooklyn.

7.   Big brokerages traded mixed.

8.   Big Japanese brokerages, though, are mired in a scandal over paying off a gangster, which hardly inspires investor confidence.

9.   All the big brokerage houses were jumping on the bandwagon.

10.   But even before the ministry announced the punishments Wednesday, the scandal had spread to another big brokerage house.