1.   And exports to the United States from all three nations are rising, partly because prices are low as a result of their battered currencies.

2.   As the dollar has crumbled in recent days, US stock and bond markets have remained strangely divorced from the battered currency.

3.   But the lift was not enough to calm foreign exchange markets or stem demands from abroad for action by the United States to bolster its battered currency.

4.   NEW RUSSIAN RUBLES CREATE HAVOC For the third time in less than a decade, the Russians have tried to revise their battered currency.

5.   The move is the latest in a series of bungled controls aimed at propping up the battered currency and stock market.

6.   This is the third time in less than a decade that the Russian government has tried to revise its battered currency.

7.   A few days later he said the government would no longer prop up the battered currency and woul allow the real to float freely.

8.   Analysts fear that a falling yen will rekindle the Asian currency crisis by further weakening the already battered currencies of many countries in the region.

9.   Economists have warned that lingering low tobacco prices could further damage the value of the already battered currency, the kwacha.

10.   Efforts by the government Monday to bolster the battered currency by selling dollars and buying pesos apparently failed.