11.   The move is intended to ensure that large dollar-for-won purchases are to meet actual trade needs, not for speculating against the won.

12.   The S-word was also used in Russia, where a central bank official complained that Russian banks were speculating against the ruble by buying dollars.

13.   Others said several banks were aggressively speculating against the real.

14.   Another currency analyst with an American bank said he suspected that rumours about the local unit could have been circulated by those intending to speculate against it.

15.   As the baht reached unprecedented levels yesterday, Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda appealed to Thais to refrain from speculating against the baht.

16.   By now the whole world was speculating against Thailand.

17.   Central bank governor Gabriel Singson said the peso would only recover if people stopped speculating against it.

18.   Chat Pattana Party spokesman Sunai Jullapongsathorn said the government must exercise its power to stop the private sector from speculating against the currency to prevent further record lows.

19.   Seven years ago, he was busy exchanging pesos and dollars as Mexicans speculated against their wildly fluctuating currency by buying greenbacks.

20.   Speculators took advantage of the situation to speculate against Asian currencies, particularly the Indonesian rupiah, Malaysian ringgit, Thai baht and the Philippine peso.