31.   Increasing the turmoil on financial markets, a private bank said Monday it would not allow clients to withdraw their savings for the next six months.

32.   Long queues have formed daily at almost all Bulgarian banks in the rush to withdraw savings and convert them to hard currency before the lev falls further.

33.   Mahuad has extended through Thursday an emergency bank holiday that has shut banks since Monday to keep people from withdrawing their savings in anticipation of drastic economic reforms.

34.   Lines formed out the doors of banks and exchange offices in the capital Sofia as people tried to withdraw savings and change them to dollars and other foreign currency.

35.   Many customers withdrew savings from private banks and deposited them at state or foreign banks or changed their rupiah to U.S. dollars.

36.   Meanwhile, depositors continue withdrawing their savings from domestic private banks.

37.   Residents lined up Friday to withdraw savings from a Barclays bank branch in the central town of Salem.

38.   Should they withdraw savings in rubles?

39.   The EPF has allowed contributors to withdraw savings for purchase of Unit Trusts.

40.   The newspaper cited the case of one elderly couple who withdrew their savings from a bank and bought shares thinking they were safe investments.