1.   And recent industry mergers among investment banks and commercial banks offer the potential to diversify core businesses and stabilize revenue streams.

2.   Block often reports a loss or a small profit for the three other quarters, but it is trying to smooth out that pattern by diversifying its businesses.

3.   Bucking the trend, companies diversifying their businesses, such as Tae Heung Leather Co., Shin Hwa Co., and Hanjoo Electronics Co., rose.

4.   British mortgage lenders are increasingly looking to diversify their businesses into other sectors as competition has brought down margins in their traditional mortgage and savings lines of business.

5.   I had wanted to diversify my business, but had a partner who kept producing dresses.

6.   Intuit has been trying to diversify its business to counter slower growth in sales of its Quicken personal finance software.

7.   One thing Schwab does not plan to do, Dodds made clear, is make any expensive acquisitions to diversify its business.

8.   The bid topped one from New York-based WHX Corp., a steelmaker looking to diversify its business.

9.   The development of small business commercial lending helped diversify business and commanded higher loan interest rates than consumer products.

10.   This diversifies their businesses and takes advantage of cheap prices for remaining state assets of troubled domestic companies, analysts say.