1.   Both banks are leaders in securities processing -- the business of mailing dividend checks, holding investment portfolios and offering other services to companies and large investors.

2.   Each party would appoint a minister to the Cabinet, but none would hold a portfolio.

3.   For example, an insured bond fund is simply a fund that holds a portfolio of insured bonds.

4.   He is a former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and has held ministerial portfolios including communications, economics and transportation.

5.   If these investors had held more diversified portfolios, they would be sleeping a lot more soundly.

6.   Insurers, which hold bond portfolios, also gained.

7.   Invesco Growth and Income holds a portfolio of large growth stocks, and a fairly aggressive one at that.

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

9.   Most banks hold large portfolios of bonds, which lose value when bonds fall.

10.   Suppose the manager is holding a portfolio whose value rises when interest rates rise but falls when interest rates fall.