1.   Dealers also were finding it difficult to make moves ahead of market closures in the United States and Singapore for holidays Monday.

2.   Dealers were also finding it difficult to make moves ahead of market closures in the United States and Singapore on Monday for holidays.

3.   No market closures are planned.

4.   No market closures are planned next week to spare the rand the rigors of the news.

5.   Except for the lira, currencies were mostly little changed a day after a US market closure, and New York was to work only half a day Friday.

6.   Little movement was expected in the dollar-yen due to the market closures in Japan, said dealers.

7.   The market closure affected the usual shopping that precedes the Moslem festival of Eid, which is to be celebrated at the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.