31.   But only recently has Merrill, which faces a slew of new online competitors in its own core brokerage business, tried to become a full-service banker.

32.   But those firms did not make the huge bet on the global brokerage business that Merrill made in the last decade.

33.   By acquiring a securities brokerage business in Israel, the firm expects to broaden its business both in brokerage and investment banking, he said.

34.   By then, he had been barred from the stock brokerage business for some of his West Palm Beach finagling.

35.   Citicorp bought several brokerage firms in London, and the resulting explosion of cultural incompatibility soured it on the stock brokerage business to this day.

36.   Consider the recent example of Hibbard Brown, the New York-based penny-stock firm whose retail brokerage business was shut down last month by securities regulators.

37.   Customers also have said they expect a company like American Century to be able to handle brokerage business, Bernstein said.

38.   Discover brokerage clients will also be slapped with a rare price increase in the ultra-competitive online brokerage business, where Discover has already been losing market share.

39.   During the past year, Lehman has attempted to focus its brokerage business on its wealthiest clients.

40.   E-Trade joined with Softbank to form a similar Web brokerage business in Japan.