1.   Duhalde promised to ease the banking freeze this week, but he has several times put off an announcement for further study.

2.   A partial banking freeze since December has locked up millions of dollars of hard-earned savings.

3.   Also on Tuesday, hundreds of Argentines upset over a banking freeze took their protest to Congress.

4.   Argentines weary of a banking freeze banged pots and pans outside banks on Thursday, demanding access to their savings as tensions remained high over the deteriorating economy.

5.   Banks reopened their hard currency tills Friday after a night of violence and protests over a draconian banking freeze that limited access to deposits.

6.   Bank shares rose on reports that the government is drafting a bill that would force depositors who win lawsuits against the partial banking freeze to take government bonds instead.

7.   Banks reopened their hard currency tills Friday after a night of violence and protests over a draconian banking freeze that limits access to deposits.

8.   But because of a shortage of pesos caused by a six-week banking freeze, the floating rate was just slightly weaker than the official rate.

9.   But he made little reference to the banking freeze that has driven thousands of Argentines into the streets in pot-banging demonstrations.

10.   Cash-hungry Argentines poured into Buenos Aires banks, many of them fuming over a banking freeze that has choked off access to their savings.