21.   Auchan SA bought Docks de France last year and Carrefour bought a stake in Cora SA.

22.   Banks led the increases on expectations that Banco Santander will buy a stake in Banco Comercial Antioqueno.

23.   BankAtlantic is buying the stake from members of the Levy family, who will resign as officers and directors of the Delray Beach, Florida-based company.

24.   Bandag had said in July that it would buy partial stakes in Joe Esco Tire and Universal Tire.

25.   Berkshire declined to say whether USAir would buy its stake.

26.   Blackstone is buying its stake from Park Corp., a holding company controlled by Raymond Park, a Cleveland industrialist.

27.   Boies also showed a tape in which he asked Gates whether Microsoft had weighed buying a stake in Netscape.

28.   Bollore has bought a stake of undisclosed size in Vivendi, a person close to the company said.

29.   Boeing is planning to buy a stake in an aircraft maintenance business in China and its McDonnell Douglas unit builds aircraft parts in the country.

30.   Both foreign companies bought their stakes at a discount to the market price.