21.   Institutions sold and investors sat tight.

22.   The institutions would sell the NPLs and assets at market price to the AMC, whose tasks include reviving and later disposing of them at higher prices.

23.   Traders said the report increased fears that other ailing Japanese financial institutions will sell their shares.

24.   Traders said the report increased fears that other ailing Japanese financial institutions will sell their shares to repair their balance sheets.

25.   Volume was light, but traders said Russian financial institutions were selling aggressively.

26.   Institutions sold steel and petrochemical shares, putting pressure on other large-cap shares, a broker at Ssangyong Securities said.

27.   A dealer with a foreign brokerage said foreign investors and some domestic financial institutions sold in front-line stocks.

28.   Domestic institutions were generally selling shares on rallies, but some were starting to buy in earnest so as not to miss the bandwagon, Ueki said.