1.   Traders said domestic institutions are selling stock in order to raise money to pad their bottom lines and help offset bad loans.

2.   By repackaging debt and using it as collateral, institutions can sell securitized bonds to investors, asset-backed securities which enjoy top-notch credit ratings.

3.   Financial institutions often sell receivables to get them off their books.

4.   Financial institutions often sell receivables to investors to get them off their books.

5.   If so, that may mean Japanese institutions will sell their Treasuries to buy these bonds.

6.   In a swap, a South African institution sells control of domestic shares it owns to an overseas bank for foreign currency.

7.   Indeed, most institutions sold the stock years ago.

8.   Institutions sometimes sell the spun-off shares because they simply represent too small of a position of their overall portfolios.

9.   Institutions often sell stocks and rebalance portfolios before shareholder reports are mailed out.

10.   Investors also dismissed concern Japanese government institutions may sell U.S. debt to fund a plan to bolster banks.