21.  As is usual on word of foreign distress, shares of banks and other financial companies were prominent casualties because of possibly soured loans and losses in securities trading.

22.  Asian reluctance is perhaps more easily explained by the vulnerability of indebted and inefficient financial companies.

23.  At least four current Atlanta-area high-technology financial companies owe their birth to SSI.

24.  At the same time Matsushita urged financial companies to undergo even stricter restructuring, including lowering salaries.

25.  At the same time, he noted that many non-bank financial companies are affiliated with companies that engage in real estate, travel agency and other commercial enterprises.

26.  At the same time, he said he favored allowing no-bank financial companies to enter banking.

27.  At the time, Netscape said Microsoft was withholding technology to dominate the business as the sole provider of the standard to other software and financial companies.

28.  Bank stocks tend to benefit from a surge in bonds, since financial companies hold large bond portfolios.

29.  Banks and financial companies tumbled for a second day because many of them lent money to the Sammi Group, which filed for protection from its creditors yesterday.

30.  Banks and financial companies went along for the ride as well.