11.   Charles Schwab Corp. is about raise its profile in the stock underwriting business.

12.   Chase executives recently said they plan to follow the same strategy to build a stock underwriting business.

13.   Commercial banks have been pushing to get into the underwriting business to provide a full menu of financing services to maximize their profits from each customer.

14.   CS First Boston also lost market share in its debt underwriting business.

15.   Even so, a rise in interest rates since mid-February threatens to curb the underwriting business in the next few months.

16.   Higher rates often hurt brokerage stocks because they crimp underwriting business, as companies, faced with higher costs, put off raising money in stock and bond markets.

17.   In each place, the firm was later awarded underwriting business.

18.   In March Salomon said it would increase its equity capital markets group in the U.S. in a bid to win more stock underwriting business.

19.   Initial public offerings command higher fees than other underwriting business.

20.   Japanese media earlier reported that Industrial Bank of Japan and Nomura Securities entertained Isaka to receive bond underwriting business from the government-run Japan Highway Public Corp.