31.   The bank has been under surveillance by the Bank of Italy, the central bank, because of operating losses and a thin capital base.

32.   The capital bases of the banks have been depleted.

33.   The company boasts research skill and marketing muscle that have made it the largest brokerage in the world in terms of capital base.

34.   The cost of the new reserves would have cut into the capital base of the firm, which until now had been financing its reserves out of its earnings.

35.   The equity writedown is a standard German accounting measure to account for the erosion of the capital base through losses.

36.   The Liberal Democratic Party introduced legislation to enhance the capital base of banks that are sound, but weakly capitalized.

37.   They appear particularly focused on whether the plan will commit Japan to inject billions in public funds to improve the capital base of banks after they are nationalized.

38.   To help support their capital base, big banks in many cases rely on unrealized gains from stocks purchased years ago.

39.   Tokai Bank, a much smaller and financially weaker institution, issued preferred shares to boost its capital base.

40.   Tilbian said Interactive Data takes Pearson into new territory with its capital markets base.