1.   He believes the best way to bring unemployment down is through helping industry and provided measures to help exporters, what he termed entrepreneurs and small businessmen.

2.   An expensive U.S. currency helps exporters by raising the value of overseas profits and making it easier for them to cut prices.

3.   Analysts predict the common currency will tend to depreciate against the dollar and the yen, helping European exporters by making their goods cheaper in the U.S. and Japan.

4.   Bonds were little changed and a stronger dollar helped European exporters.

5.   A boom in U.S. markets could help Japanese exporters.

6.   A cheaper currency helps exporters like Asustek by making their products cheaper abroad and increasing dollar-denominated revenues when repatriated.

7.   A gaining dollar also helped exporters as weaker local currency means better profits when dollars are converted.

8.   A falling yen helps Japanese exporters by making their goods cheaper, and more competitive, on overseas markets.

9.   A combination of the higher dollar and good sales helped other exporters.

10.   A declining mark helps German exporters by making their goods cheaper on foreign markets.