81.   Bids to buy the banks will close in September.

82.   Dealers said foreign investors sold dollars for baht in order to buy bank and finance shares in the stock market.

83.   Dunlap said he tried to buy the bank, but Griffith said no offer was received from him.

84.   Ichiro Murakami, a spokesman for the bank in Tokyo, would acknowledge only that negotiations were under way with four of five companies interested in buying the bank.

85.   Ichiro Murakami, a spokesman for LTCB in Tokyo, acknowledged that negotiations were under way with an unspecified number of companies interested in buying the bank.

86.   Kim agreed to buy the bank and suggested Masagung convert the debts to promissory notes, he said.

87.   Size matters in banking because it means more capital strength and enables banks to make bigger loans, buy other banks and hire the best people.

88.   Then there was the rumour that MBf Holdings will buy a bank in Malaysia, a plan that never was made possible when Loy was still alive.

89.   U.S. investment banks also aggressively bought the dollar on debt concerns and continuing worries over who might eventually become the successor of Indonesian President Suharto, they said.

90.   Will foreigners be allowed to buy Chinese banks?