1. Shares of Las Vegas Sands Corp. fell after the .......... on Wednesday, after the casino operator said its first- quarter profit fell: LVS.N shares were down 4 percent at $85 in extended-hours trading.

2. With the Dow Jones Industrials teetering on the brink of the 12,000 level, .......... Team commander, Henry Paulson, issued a buy signal; "The president's economic advisers are keeping an eye on the markets," said a White House spokesman, revealing that Bush got a phone briefing from Paulson that day.

3. When volume on an exchange is so heavy that the tape runs more than five minutes behind, the .......... price interrupts the delayed prices every 5-10 minutes to show the current price of a heavily traded stock.

4. The .......... strategy places bonds only in very short and very long maturities, making it easy to shift the average maturity of the portfolio.

5. .......... refers mostly to the stocks on the All Ordinaries index, which is composed of 280 of the most active Australian companies.

6. Opinion .......... can adversely affect the independence of auditors; it is a different activity than obtaining a second opinion, which has the objective of obtaining the right answer, and is in fact illegal.

7. The economy is coming in for a landing; optimists say it will be the much sought after ' .......... landing' when the economy slows but doesn't skid into recession, but some economists now are forecasting a bumpy landing, or even worse.

8. The pro forma combination of buy-recommended ConocoPhillips (COP) and buy-recommended Burlington Resources (BR) would create a new company with a stock market capitalization of $100 billion thereby qualifying as the sixth mega .......... energy company in our coverage.

9. Having a .......... chest of $11.2 billion gives Google freedom to make strategic acquisitions, even overpaying if necessary, and to take a longer-term view with its products and acQuisitions, enabling it to push new services out the door now and figure out how to make money off them later.

10. .......... are not intended for public distribution: they are meant to be a rough introduction to the company about to issue the new security, thus they are incomplete and not necessarily accurate.