1.   The filing comes as futures Markets seek new products to boost slumping trading activity.

2.   Trading was extraordinarily heavy, reflecting high levels of computer-driven trading activity.

3.   The reduction of trading costs which will result from the creation of the SEM could lead to many such companies expanding into cross-frontier trading activities.

4.   RICHARD ECKERSALL is responsible for the trading activities of the subsidiaries SAI and BAI.

5.   An economic slowdown that snuffs demand for stocks and dampens trading activity.

6.   An outright buying operation by the Bank of Japan failed to lift prices as trading activity continued to dwindle.

7.   Analysts said the market continued to suffer from low trading activity.

8.   And last year, the General Accounting Office warned that federal regulatory agencies were not prepared to deal with uncertainties that haunt the trading activity.

9.   And until last week, the projections of trading activity they made in September, half-way through the year, looked overly optimistic.

10.   Arakis Energy Corp. President and Chief Executive Terry Alexander Tuesday quit the Vancouver, British Columbia-based oil and gas company amid questions about his stock trading activity.