61.   Dealers expect profit-taking to dominate trading next week ahead of the long holidays for the Lunar New Year and Ramadhan Moslem festival.

62.   Dealers expect that the governor of the Bank of England Eddie George and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke would maintain key rates when they met next Wednesday.

63.   Dealers expected a cut in Italian interest rates.

64.   Dealers expected another day of volatile trading Thursday as players waited for international markets to settle down.

65.   Dealers expected bank to pay big dividends or to offer bonus shares.

66.   Dealers expected the Bank of France to cut its repurchase rate by a quarter point to seven percent later in the day.

67.   Dealers expected the figures to point towards a tightening of monetary policy in the United States.

68.   Dealers expected the monetary policy council of the Bank of France to cut its main rates by at least a quarter of a point.

69.   Employment figures for February are to be announced on Wednesday but dealers were expecting leaks on Tuesday.

70.   The strike interrupted shipments for several days and caused arabica prices to soar on the New York futures market, as dealers expected a slump in sales from Colombia.