51.   Instead, its high-flying media operations and its stodgy textile operations will trade as two separate companies, Pathe and Chargeurs International.

52.   IRISH stocks were mixed after reaching a record high in earlier trading as investors sold heavily traded stocks for less active stocks in smaller companies.

53.   It was traded as part of Investment Challenge, one of a growing number of stock market games designed to acquaint students with the basics of investing.

54.   Japanese stocks rose in late trading as government-controlled pension funds bid up steel companies and other blue chips, traders said.

55.   Japanese stocks rose in late trading as pension funds bought exporters such as NEC Corp. and Bridgestone Corp., traders said.

56.   Korn Ferry now wants to be traded as KFY on the New York Stock exchange.

57.   Like open-end mutual funds, closed-end funds hold a portfolio of securities, but they trade as stocks on exchanges.

58.   Mitsuhide Yamaguchi, chairman of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, welcomed the debut of stock options trading as a way for individual and other investors to pare risk.

59.   Most financial advisers would cite the accumulated costs of trading as the chief reason to buy and hold stocks instead.

60.   Oil stocks suffered the heaviest losses in early trading as the price of crude extended its slide from London trading to New York.