11.   Stocks closed higher Thursday as a late rally lifted a market that had sputtered for much of the day amid worries about a sinking dollar and rising interest rates.

12.   Stocks closed higher today as a late rally lifted a market that had sputtered for much of the day amid worries about a sinking dollar and rising interest rates.

13.   The worry was that Japanese fund managers might be tempted to cut their losses from the sinking dollar by selling some of their big U.S. bond holdings.

14.   They must also plot the implications of a sinking dollar and sluggish global growth.