51.   Local traders said the budget lacked investor- friendly measures.

52.   Local traders said, for the second day running, that the punishment was overdone.

53.   Mexican stocks closed slightly higher for the third day in a row Tuesday as low interest rates and a weaker peso prompted local traders to pick bargains.

54.   Members of the crowd followed the royal couple as they toured an open-air exhibition by local traders and representatives of the agricultural industry.

55.   Most investors in the market are local traders, he said, with foreign portfolio managers continuing to soften their holdings in the Philippines and other Asian countries.

56.   On domestic trade, the government promised to eliminate trade barriers between provinces that prevented local traders from competing in the domestic market.

57.   One local trader said Mexico continued to remain attractive to investors even as Brazil absorbs losses.

58.   Several months ago Morris was kidnapped by local traders who claimed he had not paid them for supplies.

59.   Studies are under way to permit local traders on specified exchanges outside Malaysia.

60.   Soybean futures surged at the Chicago Board of Trade on aggressive buying by speculators, commercial participants and local traders triggered by technical factors, traders said.