11.   BankAmerica Corp. agreed to buy Arbor National Holdings Inc., a mortgage banking company, while Barnett Banks Inc. agreed to acquire Equicredit Corp., consumer finance company.

12.   Banking companies desiring to convert CDs into more profitable securities have a large market to pursue.

13.   Banking companies turned upward in tandem with the bond market.

14.   Banking companies, whose profits are highly sensitive to climbing interest rates, lost major ground for the second consecutive day.

15.   -- Make it easier for banking companies to lend money to their securities subsidiaries and their customers.

16.   A merger with Banca Commerciale Italiana, the sixth- largest bank, would create the largest banking company in the country.

17.   Also finishing in plus territory were a number of banking companies.

18.   Brown, Inc., a Baltimore-based investment banking company.

19.   Buffett already owns big stakes in PNC Bank Corp. and investment banking company Salomon Brothers Inc.

20.   But Levine is undaunted as he gets ready to launch a mortgage banking company for the second time in his life.