1.   Also to be retained is Realty One, a single-family-home brokerage company based in Cleveland.

2.   Among the worst-hit industries were financial stocks, insurance and brokerage companies.

3.   As a group, banks were the biggest decliners on the Topix, followed by brokerage companies.

4.   As cyber-trading transforms the financial world, on-line brokerage companies are struggling to absorb the crush of trading by hundreds of thousands of investors.

5.   As might be expected, large brokerage companies argue that they want and appreciate all customers, regardless of their space requirements.

6.   Beyond the Web site crashes, analysts Burnham and Chung said the brokerage companies deserve praise.

7.   Big banks and brokerage companies have eagerly been snapping up money managers.

8.   Both brokerage companies reopened Friday morning, though employees and others returned to a surreal scene that reminded them of the horror many had lived just hours earlier.

9.   Both receive sparse, if any, attention from analysts at big New York brokerage companies.

10.   A brokerage company?