51.   His firm has arranged to resume its retail brokerage business as a branch office of LaSalle Street Securities Inc. of Chicago.

52.   High ratings are key to Wall Street, which relies on inexpensive financing to support its trading, underwriting and brokerage businesses.

53.   In addition to its brokerage business, the firm is a major small-business lender.

54.   In his new role, he will oversee that operation, as well as the brokerage business.

55.   In recent years, the stock brokerage business has been one of the most lucrative and fastest-growing industries in the country.

56.   Is he an innocent who simply fell on bad times in the brokerage business?

57.   It became the biggest seller of stocks and bonds by slowly building an investment bank on top of its traditional brokerage business.

58.   It also has a money management arm and a stock brokerage business aimed at affluent individual investors.

59.   It is a sea change in the retail brokerage business.

60.   It has longstanding lending relationships with big companies and a growing regional brokerage business.