21.   The auction system also would benefit institutional investors who buy longer term debt, mainly seven-year floating-rate notes.

22.   The change should benefit individual investors by reducing the difference between the bid and ask price, which is a hidden fee investors pay.

23.   The spate of samurai issues is also benefiting Japanese investors.

24.   The U.S. Congress is considering legislation requiring stock markets to express share prices in decimals, with spreads in pennies, which could benefit investors even more.

25.   The weak dollar typically would have benefited investors with overseas investments because their gains would have translated into more dollars.

26.   They also said the challenge benefited Winrock investors by pushing Winthrop to propose its own plan for buying out limited partners.

27.   Those purchases and the strength of the dollar has also benefited non-U.S. investors.

28.   Under a decimal system, the increments would be in pennies, potentially benefiting investors even more.

29.   Variable annuity contracts often have cancellation penalties so that in the short run fee revenues would rise, benefiting investors in variable annuity stocks.

30.   While investors these days are clearly jittery, some are optimistic that the Enron affair could lead to improvements in oversight that ultimately will benefit investors.