51.   Buyout firms typically buy controlling stakes in public businesses.

52.   By buying a stake in these companies before the companies try selling shares to investors en masse, the funds get in on the ground floor.

53.   By buying a stake in Volpe Brown, CSFB gains access to potential clients.

54.   Carmakers Renault SA and Volvo AB of Sweden completed their divorce this year, six years after buying stakes in each other as a prelude to a merger.

55.   CBS was blindsided in May when Fox Inc. took away eight of its affiliates by agreeing to buy a stake in New World Communications.

56.   Chilean stocks rose amid speculation a leading Spanish utility plans to buy a stake in the Chilean utility Enersis SA.

57.   China has also indicated that American companies could buy minority stakes in telecommunications businesses, but so far it has refused to allow them to take majority stakes.

58.   Chilean stocks rose amid speculation that a leading Spanish utility plans to buy a stake in the Chilean utility Enersis SA.

59.   Chilean stocks traded mixed on speculation a long-distance telephone company is about to buy a stake in a local telephone operator.

60.   Cisco Systems Inc. said it bought a stake in closely held Precept Software Inc. and plans to help develop software to send video and sound through computer networks.