81.   Foreign investors nearly halved net purchases from recent levels, leaving the market vulnerable to arbitrage-linked selling, market sources said.

82.   Export-oriented issues met massive sell-offs, market sources said.

83.   Trade tensions between the United States and Japan over auto trade issues continued to weigh on the dollar, market sources said.

84.   The US Federal Reserve Board was to decide whether or not to tighten monetary policy to support the dollar, market sources said.

85.   US funds together with Japanese life insurance firms and some banks were dollar buyers here Tuesay apparently because of the tension in the Gulf, market sources said.

86.   While speculation has cooled off a bit since February, market sources said, it continues on a heavy level.

87.   US and European speculators as well as Asian central banks actively sold dollars for yen, market sources said.

88.   Japanese shares came under profit-taking pressure Thursday, following a two-day advance, market sources said.

89.   Japanese institutional and retail investors were sellers on the Tokyo stock market, market sources said.

90.   Leading export issues led the decline on investor worries over the planned US trade sanctions, market sources said.