41.   Libertad runs seven megastores, including three in Cordoba, and six wholesale markets.

42.   Long added, however, that concerns about the three-year-old New England wholesale electric market contributed.

43.   Los Angeles-based Mexican groups control wholesale markets west of the Mississippi.

44.   Many investor-owned utilities no longer generate power, but buy it on the wholesale market.

45.   Missouri utilities, however, would be able to keep more of the profits when they sold electricity on the wholesale market, the utilities said.

46.   Most Japanese petroleum companies depend on purchases of crude oil from the global wholesale market, unlike Euro-American companies which boast their own extraction operations.

47.   Natural gas prices began rising several months ago, worsening the losses that dairies were already absorbing in this depressed wholesale market for milk.

48.   New rules to prevent overloading of transmission lines also made receiving electricity purchased on the wholesale market more difficult.

49.   Now, instead of generating their own power, the utilities buy it for consumers on newly created wholesale markets.

50.   One is that, after a couple of years, the wholesale market is expected to calm down.