41.   Every major brokerage firm and many large banks have a handful of traders who specialize in such financial rescue.

42.   Emerging markets helped to bolster trading revenue at Citicorp as well as at other large banks.

43.   Federal Reserve hearings are a ritual for large banks seeking to merge.

44.   First International, majority-owned by the Safra family, is the only large bank in Israel not majority owned by the state.

45.   For example, the Supreme Court ruled in March that large bank holding companies, such as Barnett Banks Inc. in Florida, could sell insurance through small towns.

46.   For example, while large banks began the year as avid supporters, smaller banks joined insurance agents in opposing deregulation.

47.   For most large banks in the United States the service is a staple source of income.

48.   Gates was in Moscow to announce new deals to provide software to the large bank chain Sberbank and to the oil company Lukoil.

49.   Gerard Cassidy, a banking analyst with Tucker Anthony in Portland, Maine, said he is expecting most large banks to trim spending this year.

50.   Fraga, who holds both Brazilian and United States citizenship, then traveled to the United States, where he convinced large banks to renew credit lines to Brazil.