21.   The finance ministers urged Russia and Japan to quickly restore market and public confidence in their battered currencies and economies.

22.   The dollar bounced off early lows Thursday as speculation about further central bank intervention discouraged traders from selling the battered currency.

23.   The dollar bounced off its early lows Thursday afternoon, as speculation about further central bank intervention discouraged traders from selling off the battered currency.

24.   The leaders endorsed a strategy fashioned earlier in Manila that gives primary responsibility for stabilizing battered currencies to the International Monetary Fund.

25.   The political turmoil has sent the stock market into sharp fall and the central bank has been forced to intervene repeatedly to prop up the battered currency.

26.   This is supposed to be a region reeling from drastic unemployment, failed stock markets and battered currencies?