1.   Banks ended mixed to lower.

2.   Livestock and meat futures ended mixed to lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in response to weak wholesale meat prices.

3.   Trading houses closed mixed to lower, sold on sustained concerns over the fall-out from events in Indonesia on their earnings, brokers said.

4.   Financials closed mixed to lower, with late declines pressuring earlier gains in key market indices.

5.   Insurers closed mixed to lower, as investors took diverging views on the likely impact of further deregulation.

6.   Banks closed mixed to lower, with ongoing position covering limiting the declines from the late sell-off, brokers said.

7.   Banks were mixed to lower.

8.   Banks were mixed to lower on a lack of buying support.

9.   Brokers said few investors were willing to chase share prices higher, leaving them broadly mixed to lower by the close.

10.   But major car makers were mixed to lower, as concerns about heavy inventories weighed on their shares.