31.   British trading house Winchester Commodities on Friday denied it had manipulated the international copper markets with Yasuo Hamanaka, the disgraced Japanese copper trader from Sumitomo Corp.

32.   There was speculative yen selling by US investors for dollars in early trading, while Japanese traders bought the yen, dealers said.

33.   Japanese traders said that they thought the government was likely to step in to stem the route in share values.

34.   Japanese traders betrayed little concern about the US budget crisis, nor did they see any significant impact on markets.

35.   Japanese traders bought dollars to settle import bills.

36.   Japanese traders feared that the imposition of a fresh administration by Russian President Boris Yeltsin might further delay exports.

37.   Some of the recipient nations of Japanese grants-in-aid had pointed out possible collusion among Japanese traders as the same firms always won the contracts, Kyodo news agency said.