1.   A strong stock market and the euphoria it spawned created an unprecedented ease about owning equities.

2.   Details of the transaction remain to be worked out, he said, because currently partners in Deloitte Consulting own equity in Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and vice versa.

3.   European economists, meanwhile, said that consumer confidence in Europe would be less affected precisely because a much smaller portion of the population owns equities.

4.   Half of all American households now own equities.

5.   If you take a look at what U.S. investors have done, most are not particularly interested in owning non-U.S. equities at this point.

6.   Investors who own Korean equities can use forward markets in Korea to hedge their currency risk.

7.   It also would be a way to lure individual Italian investors, who tend to prefer government bonds to equities, into owning equities.

8.   Lydon and his senior producer wanted to own equity in the show that they developed.

9.   Secondly, we believe you want to own equities of all kinds to be broadly diversified.

10.   The IAI Developing Countries Fund aims for long-term capital appreciation by owning equities of companies in developing markets that are growing rapidly.