1. SAP tech .......... Agassi resigns: The world's largest enterprise software application vendor announced on Wednesday that Shai Agassi is departing at the end of the week as president of SAP's product and technology group.

2. True investors will look beneath the surface before they risk their hard earned capital — I mean, really do you expect that I'd dump years' worth of research & DD so I could get into the latest .......... play?

3. D-day finally arrived last week for the Washington Public Power Supply System: with its coffers almost empty, .........., as everyone now calls the agency, formally declared that it could not repay $2.25 billion in bonds used to finance partial construction of two now abandoned nuclear power plants in Washington State.

4. Robert Rubin, the US treasury secretary, is making contingency plans for a possible government funding crisis later this month; the word is that he's planning to issue a new tranche of paper — the Gingrich bond, which has no maturity, the Dole bond, with no interest, and the .......... bond, with no principal.

5. Although the transition from a regulated, inflation-ridden environment to a low-inflation free market provided a .......... to investors that may be difficult to extend into the future, it does show us the economic conditions that are conducive to high investor returns.

6. There is still a compelling case for .........., as they offer more room for growth than larger companies and greater safety and stability than smaller companies.

7. Because this is not an exact science, most investment managers work with several risk categories; these categories are summaries of how the investor feels about investment risk, how much .......... market fluctuations can be tolerated, and how much they expect to profit when the markets are going up.

8. EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. announced today it has filed a registration statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and a preliminary .......... with the securities commissions in each Canadian province relating to a proposed initial public offering of 6,000,000 shares of its subordinate voting shares.

9. A financial .......... is an online journal that provides news and information on the finance industry, commenting on news and information, also providing stock analysis based on both fundamental and technical principles; the style is more casual than an article and often reflects the personal opinion of the its writer.

10. Energy is Regent's largest industry .........., at 27 percent of assets, including hydroelectric power companies in Kyrgyzstan.