31.   Shares have traded at or just below the offer price for several days, as investors doubted a white knight would emerge with a higher bid.

32.   Some still worry that countries not included in the first wave of negotiations would suffer economically because foreign investors would doubt their stability.

33.   With the economy looking brisk so far this year, investors doubt the Fed will lower short-term interest rates to stimulate the economy.

34.   He added that investors were now doubting that the government could remedy the situation if the dollar continued to rise.

35.   Virachai Krongsamsi of Adkinson Finance and Securities said investors doubted that Thai authorities could defend the baht if the dollar continued to climb.