31.   Despite the rise in banking company stocks, some insurance company stocks were sluggish.

32.   DUTCH stocks closed mixed as a weaker dollar and rising bond yields were countered by a rise in banking stocks.

33.   Enthusiasm for brokerage and investment banking stocks is drooping among some investors as the stock market gives a lesson in volatility.

34.   Equitable is selling its shares at a time when banking stocks have outperformed the overall market.

35.   Fidelity increased its stake in banking stocks such as BankAmerica Corp. and Citicorp, he said.

36.   Experts say the ruling party legislators are trying to prop up banking stocks by proposing solutions to the bad-loan problem.

37.   For investors looking for banking stocks in Southeast Asia, the choice is pretty limited.

38.   In Poland, two companies favored by foreign investors, tire makers Debica SA and Stomil Olsztyn SA, both rose, as did bank stocks.

39.   In recent weeks, though, he has unloaded several European banking stocks, including Credit Suisse Group, because of its exposure to the Russian economic crisis.

40.   INDONESIAN stocks rose, with a gain in PT Telkom offsetting a decline in banking stocks, which fell on concern that limits on credit growth may crimp earnings.