11.   Bonds slumped early in the day, after Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto revived concern Japan may sell Treasuries to prop up ailing banks.

12.   Brazil moved to help ailing banks get taken over by healthy ones, offering credit for buyouts and giving authorities the power to force mergers.

13.   -- The deposit insurance system should be changed to allow ailing banks to tap funds before going bankrupt or being merged with another bank.

14.   Both BBV and Banorte have experience at turning around ailing banks.

15.   But cash can dwindle rapidly if customers start to exit a health plan, like nervous depositers pulling their cash out of an ailing bank.

16.   By the end of the month, regulators must decide which ailing banks to sell, which banks to dissolve and which power companies to sell.

17.   By raising stock prices, legislators are trying to prevent ailing banks from reporting losses for the year ending in March, Shimamoto said.

18.   Cardoso, he testified, was told only in November, when Unibanco bought the ailing bank.

19.   For one thing, Japan has been holding down interest rates to help its ailing banks.

20.   For a healthy and sustainable recovery, countries would have to restructure ailing banks and eliminate bad investment and lending practices that brought on the crisis.