1.   The professional exams for futures dealers are hogwash as far as the directors of some firms are concerned.

2.   This exemption will not be relevant to most futures dealers and will not be discussed in any greater detail.

3.   Bonds will probably trade little changed before the machinery report, said Taisuke Imada, a Euroyen futures dealer at Dai-Ichi Securities Co.

4.   Greenspan endorsed the way futures dealers have reduced the risk of financial derivatives in response to the Orange County, Calif., debacle five years ago.

5.   Traders had already accounted for the figure, said Taisuke Imada, a Euroyen futures dealer at Dai-Ichi Securities Co.

6.   A futures dealer said sentiments in the market had improved given the rebound in Hong Kong.

7.   Tsuguya Onozuka, an equity futures dealer at Yamatane Securities, expects the Nikkei to remain in a narrow range ahead of the announcement of a supplementary government budget.

8.   Individual futures dealers like Luo Xin are now betting on shares.