1.   Investors continued to unload technology stocks on Thursday.

2.   IBM is considered the bellwether stock on Wall Street.

3.   The Bank customarily announces the issue of new stock on a Friday and dealings usually start in the secondary market on the following Thursday.

4.   The effect was the unloading of a mountain of stock on to a market which was becoming overheated.

5.   To date, all seven offers of stock for sale by auction have been oversubscribed and, on each occasion, all stock on offer has been sold.

6.   Most market makers also display prices for the most widely traded stocks on screen on SEAQ.

7.   Most of the stock on the farm was half starved.

8.   It is not the ethical shade of green, like Merlin International, because it will not exclude stocks on those grounds.

9.   In the U S the Dow Jones opened sharply lower and dealers marking down stop, stocks on the back of widening def, the widening deficit figure.

10.   Already, Salomon Brothers Inc. and NatWest Markets have said they will break off from SEAQ and trade stocks directly on the individual European exchanges.