41.   -- The latest round in a longrunning fight about whether banks can sell insurance.

42.   A Bank of Japan spokesman in New York declined to comment on reports that the bank sold dollars.

43.   A Finance Ministry panel yesterday decided to recommend the ministry that it allow banks to sell investment trusts at its nationwide branches, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said.

44.   A sluggish or contracting economy makes it difficult for banks to sell the land they received as collateral when the borrowers defaulted.

45.   A number of other clients soon said the bank had sold them risky, money-losing derivatives.

46.   A sluggish or contracting economy would make it difficult for banks to sell the land they received as collateral when the borrowers defaulted.

47.   After seizing control of the company, the bank sold Superior to A-Mark Auction Galleries Inc. of Santa Monica, Calif., Miller said.

48.   Bulgarians had rushed to sell lev after foreign banks were reported selling the currency to finance imports.

49.   But just as banks sell mortgages on the secondary market, health clubs often sell some of their contracts to finance companies.

50.   But now the banks sell the loans to others, at a profit, letting these others worry.