41.   TRW had planned to announce a new equity partner for Odyssey in June or July, Gorman said.

42.   UPS said it will finance the expansion through reinvestment of existing profits, negating the need to issue new equity or debt securities.

43.   What will the company and the board do to get new equity injected into the company?

44.   When things went sour, it stepped in with financial help, often exchanging its old debt for new equity.

45.   With new equity now a non-starter for all but the biggest, safest companies, the phone newbies have had to scramble to find a plan B.

46.   Peregrine Equity Brokerage and Trading managing director Andrew Jamieson said Peregrine deputy chairman Francis Leung was almost certain to head the new equity business.

47.   Banking sources said the government was expected to announce new equity requirements by the end of the month that would force more bank mergers.

48.   Contacted by the Hong Kong Standard, Peregrine chairman Philip Tose declined to comment on suggestions that he would play no significant role in the new equities business.

49.   DCR said a bank generally has two internal avenues to defend itself before external support in the form of new equity injection is required.

50.   Fabienne Gimenez, a Cairo-based broker with EFG-Hermes, agreed that the market needed new equities, but she added that it remained sufficiently liquid.