11.   The only question now is when the industry will adopt decimal pricing.

12.   The NYSE, which for many months reflected the fears of many brokerages that their profits would dwindle under decimal pricing, would not comment immediately today.

13.   The Toronto Stock Exchange converted to decimal pricing last April, leaving the U.S. exchanges as the only markets in the industrialized world trading in fractions.

14.   Under decimal pricing, narrower increments in many cases should let investors buy stocks more cheaply and sell them at higher prices.

15.   Trading spreads -- the difference between the buying and selling price of a stock -- can be narrowed to pennies under decimal pricing.

16.   Up until yesterday, Levitt had not clearly supported the move to decimal pricing.

17.   The mutual fund industry became the latest group Thursday to complain about the way decimal pricing is affecting trading on the New York Stock Exchange.