11.   Market sources said the Spanish central bank was seen intervening regularly during the past week, trying to prevent the peseta from slip sliding out of the currency grid.

12.   Market sources said the Spanish central bank was seen intervening regularly during the past week, trying to prevent the peseta from slipping out of the currency grid.

13.   Market sources said the Spanish central bank was seen intervening regularly during the past week, trying to prevent the peseta from slipsliding out of the currency grid.

14.   The drachma has been under pressure since October on speculation it would be devalued before its entry into the currency grid.

15.   The drachma has been under pressure since October on speculation it would be devalued ahead of its entry into the currency grid.

16.   The last time the committee made a decision affecting the ERM was in early January when the Austrian schilling entered the currency grid.

17.   Britain and Italy are both currently outside the ERM currency grid.

18.   The London-based trading house, GNI, said that gold had been affected this week by the re-entry of the lira into the ERM European currency grid.