1.   Analysts said State Street would be an attractive target for Bank of New York and many other banking companies, though they did not expect any hostile moves soon.

2.   Analysts said that the big out-of-state banking companies were unlikely to be very interested in buying Ahmanson.

3.   Another local online banking company, Netzee, offered its stock to the public for the first time Tuesday.

4.   And, having grown tenfold in a decade into perhaps the most successful regional banking company in the country, its formula seemed to work.

5.   As we have written before, Investors is no more a banking company than the much larger State Street Corp.

6.   Banking companies were also negatively affected by the higher bond yields, which usually narrow bank profit margins.

7.   Banking companies benefited from the steepening of the yield curve, which widens the spread between their lending and their borrowing.

8.   Banking companies with the largest Asian operations are falling today.

9.   Barings is now owned by the Dutch banking company ING Groep NV.

10.   Barnett, a banking company based in Jacksonville, Fla., hopes to expand its retail banking business by acquiring Equicredit, also of Jacksonville.