1.   Nippon Housing and Daiichi Housing are the only housing lenders whose stock is publicly traded.

2.   He traded stocks for one tenth their face value.

3.   All-Tech and other order entry firms like it allow people from all professions and walks of life to trade Nasdaq stocks using SOES.

4.   American Express, the credit card company, already lets clients trade stocks.

5.   And foreigners, increasingly eager to invest in American companies, are buying into the safest, most heavily traded stocks.

6.   And it will bring higher taxes, because it trades stocks more often.

7.   And if electronic networks become exchanges where companies can list their shares, this will cut into the fees Nasdaq receives from companies whose stocks it trades.

8.   And they can trade stocks at feasible commissions and without having to call a broker with the worry that their voice might crack.

9.   And trading stocks profitably is hard to do.

10.   And trading stocks, which used to bring in the bucks even when share prices fell, has become far less profitable now.