The companies never had assets of more than $400,000, including proceeds from ill-gotten gains, officials said.

In any case, Democrats are taking heart from exceedingly modest gains.

It benefited from one-time gains worth 21 cents a share.

The downside, of course, is that if the market rises sharply, you don't benefit from potential gains.

Some dealers took profits from gains against the German mark.

The net income figure for the year also benefited from one-time gains, he said.

But against the German mark, the dollar retreated from earlier gains.

That would be a slowdown from gains of 8 percent in both 2005 and 2006.

Office politics do not necessarily stem from purely selfish gains.

Markets Stock prices got support from gains in bonds.