1.  Any reversal of reported Japanese buying of European bonds would likely hurt gilts, traders said.

2.  Any rise above 7 percent is considered enough to keep foreign investors from buying such Brazilian securities as equities.

3.  Dennis Hayes founded D.C. Hayes Associates in 1978, buying out partners along the way as the company helped define the modem industry.

4.  Dennis Moran, an analyst at A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc., initiated coverage of Youth Services on March 19 with a "buy" recommendation.

5.  Dennis said British Airways and United Airlines both told Boeing that they wanted to buy new 550-seat jets but weren't prepared to make the financial commitment.

6.  Defying conventional wisdom, Goldman, Wall Street's premier blue-chip firm, has no interest in buying a Main Street brokerage firm, they stressed.

7.  Cuban officials angrily denounced the final bill, saying no American foodstuffs would be bought under such restrictions.

8.  Cuban said he remained inspired by his vision of the mythic "94-year-old lady" who may have bought shares at $74.

9.  CUC, which was later bought by Stamford, Conn.-based Cendant International, would not comment on the terms of the transaction.

10.  CUC's bread-and-butter is a series of databases that help almost 40 million customers buy products from cars to plane tickets to dinner, mainly over the telephone.