81.   To some extent, Congress is simply catching up with developments in the business world, where bank regulators have increasingly allowed banks to buy brokerage firms.

82.   U.S. banks are buying each other at a record pace to boost earnings.

83.   Two years earlier, the bank bought merchant bank Barings Plc.

84.   U.S. banks are buying each other at a rapid pace to cut costs and increase profitability.

85.   Unlike other recent bank deals in which one bank is buying another, the First Chicago-NBD deal is more of a classic merger.

86.   Wells Fargo filed documents Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that will allow the bank to buy all outstanding shares of First Interstate.

87.   When the yen weakened, the bank bought back the currency at the lower exchange rate, and Winnick pocketed the difference.

88.   A bank bought him a house.

89.   A trader with a foreign bank said many banks bought dollars too quickly on Wednesday following a selloff in Latin America.

90.   Banks buy securities such as U.S. Treasury bills as a means of earning interest on deposits.