That is about 1.5percentt of the $4.25 trillion in funds that the firm measured.
That was a 15percentt drop, and the firm measured similar declines at Morpheus and iMesh.
The move by Credit Suisse follows by about two weeks a similar rule instituted by Merrill Lynch, the largest American brokerage firm measured by the number of brokers employed.
PaineWebber, the fourth-biggest brokerage firm measured by the number of brokers, said that it had named Walter Hulce to succeed Mr. Reed and was actively pursuing other replacements.
He created a consulting company that would work for only one firm in an industry, or "competitive set" — the group of companies against which a firm measures its own performance.
Morgan Stanley, the biggest securities firm measured by market value, said it earned $1.46 billion, or $1.26 a diluted share, in the quarter that ended May 31, compared with $1.15 billion, or 97 cents a share, in the second quarter of 1999.
Hitwise, an analytics firm, measures how happy users are with their searches by looking at how many are successful, meaning the user stays at the first site they click on.
PrimeGenesis sells the full app for $9.99 (a basic version is free), but George Bradt, managing director, says the firm measures the app's success by the number of clients it produces.
The hottest chilli in the Samsung kimchi bowl is Samsung Electronics, which started out making clunky transistor radios but is now the world's biggest technology firm, measured by sales.
ASSETS are the total assets of the firm measured in million euro.
