21.   This calmed the markets, traders said.

22.   Treasury Secretary Jose Angel Gurria and the governor of the central bank, Guillermo Ortiz, appeared at an evening news conference, apparently orchestrated to calm the markets.

23.   While pledging to work together to calm financial markets and restore growth, the Pacific Rim nations found little common ground.

24.   While Mr. Greenspan finally broke his silence on Wednesday, thus calming the markets, this was no cause for victory celebrations.

25.   A dealer with a local securities firm said that only certainty about presidential succession would calm the market.

26.   Apparently hoping to calm markets, Finance Minister Goran Persson, a Social Democrat, said this week that more spending cuts may be necessary.

27.   But these comments failed to calm jittery markets.

28.   Economics Minister Guenter Rexrodt tried to calm the markets by insisting that the German economy is not sliding into a recession.

29.   EU officials sought to calm the markets.

30.   Exxon Mobil and BP sought to calm energy markets.