The firm ceased using the practice for its own trading account after the stock market crash of October 1987.

The downside was that the firm ceased to be profitable and the trader's best years were wasted.

The firm ceased to exist after politics and the anti-Apartheid struggle began to consume most of both men's time.

But only three years later, in 1996, the firm ceased to operate, apparently because of financial distress.

"If the $1.8 billion had come down in one fell swoop the firm would have ceased to exist."

This firm should cease to trade of this morning.

As a result, the firm ceased operations on March 31, 2009.

The firm has, in fact, ceased publication of conventional books altogether.

The firm ceased activities during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

The firm ceased trading in 1908 and the remaining stock was auctioned off.