41.   Now questions about trading practices in markets for energy and high-speed Internet connections are bringing even more scrutiny to Enron and other big energy traders.

42.   Of course, many stock experts, and individual investors, believe that the Houston energy trader was an anomaly, and that most corporate bookkeeping is basically sound.

43.   On Monday the senior vice president of troubled Houston energy trader El Paso Corp. was found dead, an apparent suicide.

44.   Officials at the El Paso Corp. and Reliant Energy, two large energy traders in Houston, said Tuesday that they continued to do business with Enron.

45.   Other big energy traders, like the El Paso Corp., Reliant Energy, Mirant and Aquila, also fell.

46.   Other energy traders, worried that Enron would not be able to make good on its contracts, scrambled to find alternate sources of electricity and gas.

47.   Other energy traders are rushing to fullly disclose how much of their profits come from mark-to-market contracts.

48.   Prices rose after the API reported the decline in stockpiles and rising demand, said David Becker, an energy derivatives trader at Citibank in New York.

49.   Perlman recently confirmed he worked as a consultant to the failed energy trader.

50.   Perlman said this week that nondisclosure agreements with McKinsey prevent him from discussing any possible consulting work with the energy trader.