61.   Overseas individuals have been banned from directly purchasing shares.

62.   Russian citizens were issued vouchers that could be used to purchase shares in the fund.

63.   Samsung said one of its many units, the unlisted Samsung Life Insurance Co., has gradually purchased shares in Hyundai purely as an investment.

64.   Sela said foreign investors were purchasing Agan shares, which were seen as relatively cheap.

65.   Several companies said they had trouble even finding GIC after the agency reported that it had purchased their shares.

66.   Ross Perot Jr. and his company, the Hillwood Investment Group, have ceased efforts to purchase a share of the Stars, team President Jim Lites said yesterday.

67.   She declined to say how many shares she purchased.

68.   Small investors enjoyed purchasing shares for children and friends, she said.

69.   Short covering is a strategy employed by traders in which shares are purchased as a hedge against the outside chance of a sustained rally.

70.   Some traders even consider increasing short positions as a bullish sign, since the short-sellers will eventually have to purchase shares.