31.   Rod Strickland of the Portland Trail Blazers stormed off the court and declared he was finished with the team after it failed to trade him by the deadline.

32.   Shaw could have become a free agent had the Dodgers not traded him by next spring.

33.   Some investors use trading by company officers to help determine if a stock will rise or fall, figuring that company executives know the company better than outsiders.

34.   Smith Barney analyst Helene Becker said investors appear confused by recent reports of insider trading by Atlas Air Chairman Michael Chowdry.

35.   STOCKS SNAP DECLINE The stock market ended higher for the first time in more than a week, but gains were trimmed in late trading by computerized selling programs.

36.   Telephone companies and oil producer YPF, which are the most traded by foreign investors, all rose.

37.   That took place even though the government sought to keep a lid on derivatives trading by restricting foreigners from buying or selling futures or options in August.

38.   The authors said that trading by institutional investors has increased spreads because these funds tend to place large, irregularly spaced orders.

39.   The B shares trade in New York, which should increase trading by rising the float of share.

40.   The central bank stemmed a budding rally in early afternoon trading by denying it has any such plans.