1.   Some even hoarded rice, toilet paper and bottled water, while the central bank bought shares and sold U.S. dollars to steady the markets.

2.   The central bank bought shares and sold U.S. dollars Friday to steady the markets.

3.   To steady the markets, it has resorted to its usual tactic of administrative fiat, reversing plans to sell huge holdings of state shares in the domestic markets.

4.   Other finance houses might have intervened as part of an operation to steady the market, she said.