Fixed income sales and trading net revenue fell 8percenttoto $1.9 billion, because of widening of credit spreads on certain long-term debt.
Datek Online, one of the nation's fastest-growing on-line brokerage firms, has postponed an initial public offering of stock because of widening investigations into its trading practices, according to bankers who were briefed on the deal.
And while northern primary schools perform well, secondary school attainment is a major cause for concern, particularly because of widening educational inequalities between disadvantaged pupils and their wealthier peers.
Carlton Communications said it was in talks to sell its Technicolor film-processing unit in the next few weeks and that its profit fell 44percentt in fiscal 2000, mainly because of widening losses on investments in digital TV.
Chon Chol Hwan, the bank's governor, said the main motive for the reduction was to reduce the shock of last week's events on an economy already slowing drastically because of widening slumps in the two largest markets for Korean products, Japan and the United States.
In particular, women stopped flocking to teaching in the numbers they once did because of widening opportunities in other fields.
Participants expressed eagerness to take part because of the appeal of widening participation in research commissioning in particular and NHS decision making in general and also because of their interest to the area of focus of their commissioning group.
And they noted that the credit markets, which would be the first to reflect a fear of widening deficits because they would tend to push up interest rates, were not much affected.
But some killings have aroused particular fear because of the widening circle of victims.
The child mortality rate has declined by more than a quarter in the last two decades — to 65 per 1,000 live births last year from 90 in 1990 — in large part because of the widening distribution of relatively inexpensive technologies, like measles vaccines and anti-malaria mosquito nets.
