11. Greenspan will do what he has to do to calm markets worldwide. 12. He returned to Washington, where the Fed did nothing more in public than issue a one-sentence statement to help calm the markets. 13. Many traders expected the Bank of Japan to calm financial markets with its morning adjustment to the banking system. 14. Russian officials said that the Kremlin was weighing various steps, including a presidential speech, to try to calm the markets. 15. Shifting attention from the international economic crisis may even have calmed the markets. 16. Still, on election night Zedillo was the first to congratulate Fox, and action that calmed markets but enraged some PRI hardliners. 17. The fund was not in the business of throwing money into a country to calm financial markets, he said. 18. The reports calmed financial markets nervous about higher interest rates. 19. The reports calmed financial markets nervous about higher interest rates by suggesting to many investors that the pace of economic growth was not fast enough to reignite accelerating inflation. 20. The rescue plans seem to have calmed markets in both countries, and it is to be hoped that they will work in the long run as well. |