41.   BRAZILIAN stocks were little changed, as gains in electric utilities and state- controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA were offset by a decline in telephone companies.

42.   Brazil sold banks, electric utilities, iron ore miner Cia. Vale do Rio Doce and licenses to run mobile telephone operations.

43.   Brazilian stocks rose amid optimism over sale of state-controlled electric utilities.

44.   A decade ago, eight investor-owned electric utilities operated there.

45.   A bill to deregulate electric utilities in Texas was declared dead today by the lawmaker who sponsored the proposal.

46.   A decade ago, about eight investor-owned electric utilities operated there.

47.   A model the two groups are complaining about was developed under the Super Efficient Refrigerator Program, which was an environmental effort by electric utilities.

48.   A New York electric utility beat out five New England power companies and six other bidders to win a contract to supply electricity to a group of Massachusetts industries.

49.   A rally in the shares of electric utilities boosted the return on assets posted by Chilean pensions funds for the second consecutive month in February.

50.   A Western buyout would be the first successful hostile takeover of a U.S. electric utility and would leave Western better able to compete in a deregulated U.S. power market.