1. .........., the company best known for the insider-trading scandal that sent founder Samuel Waksal and domestic diva Martha Stewart to prison, received more bad news this week when a U.S. judge ruled that the patent for its only product was actually owned by three Israeli scientists.

2. Today's stock market scandals are different because the main victims today are .......... investors — everyone from parents saving for their children's college education to the firefighter saving for retirement to the elderly who don't have time to rebuild their nest egg.

3. In another move towards making itself a financial center, north China's port city of Tianjin has applied to the State Council to establish an .......... market rather than a third stock exchange for the Chinese mainland.

4. From 1989, more share-buying opportunities were made available to the British public as a number of financial institutions demutualised; these .......... shares' for members of the societies offered instant cash or the opportunity to continue as a part owner of the newly public entity.

5. Builders slammed on the brakes in August as housing .......... sank to their lowest level in more than three years, and a drop in permits signaled more weakness ahead for the real estate market.

6. Broker-dealers impliedly represent that they will deal fairly with their customers, and therefore unfair dealing is a breach of this implied representation and a violation of the anti-fraud provisions; this representation arises from the mere act of hanging up a sign and going into business, and therefore it is known as the ' .......... theory'.

7. Nasdaq data indicate that 94% of the share volume from 4:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. resulted from after-hours transactions rather than .......... from the regular trading session.

8. WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell has accused Rupert Murdoch of .......... internet companies because of falling ad revenues; he said it was intriguing to speculate why Mr Murdoch launched a multimillion-dollar internet shopping spree, and accused him of buying web operations willy-nilly.

9. A third of first-time home buyers may cut their offer at the last minute, forcing the seller to take less or find a new buyer; "In total, 31% would consider ' .......... ', reflecting first-time buyers' new-found confidence in a slowing market," says a Yorkshire Bank.

10. When Seagate Technology went public, the giant drivemaker took an important stand: unlike most initial public offerings, it declined to offer any .......... shares, the coveted shares issuers and their bankers can quietly offer to whomever they choose.