21.   When we began our hunt, we used the conventional methods, answering ads and relying on a local broker to screen the Multiple Listing Service.

22.   In Hong Kong, share prices edged up slightly amid talks among local brokers that the United States may not raise interest rates this month.

23.   Local brokers believe for some institutional players, Thailand will look attractive again only after its troubled private banks are safely nestled in the arms of foreign partners.

24.   Mr Lee noted that unlike Peregrine, most local brokers did not have investments outside Hong Kong.

25.   Often in collusion with issuing companies and local brokers, the prices were rigged up to help place the shares at very high prices.

26.   Prices had been driven up last month by local brokers gambling that the Russian market would post a huge gain in early January as it did last year.

27.   She said she did not know why developers and property owners rejected to pay the commission fees to local brokers.

28.   The futures trader said the ill-feeling was based on a lack of understanding about the role of derivative products in a bear market among local brokers.

29.   The move cuts out the need for the local broker to route the order through a foreign broker.

30.   A dealer at local broker said mutual funds returned to the market due to the weakening interbank rate.