31.   Korea is letting its currency weaken at a time when mounting debts and a slowing economy have unleashed a wave of bankruptcies.

32.   Key currencies have weakened over the last year, making exports easier to sell.

33.   Letting the currency weaken slightly might help spur exports -- or it could be a catalyst that sets off an even steeper decline, economists said.

34.   No longer would an Italy, say, be able to just let its currency weaken.

35.   Over the past few years, doubts about the monetary union have flared intermittently and caused some European currencies to weaken against the mark.

36.   Securities firms across the region have shed staff as stock trading slows and currencies weaken.

37.   Since early July, a rolling wave of investor concern about risk in Asia caused currencies to weaken versus the U.S. dollar.

38.   Southeast Asian currencies weakened more than one-third since July.

39.   Still, currency traders remained jittery as concern grew over recent government actions that have caused the currency to weaken.

40.   Starting this summer, countries from Thailand to Japan have seen currencies weaken, stock indexes plummet and financial institutions run aground.