21.   President Leonid Kuchma has ordered the government to study the possibility of allowing the national currency to float freely as of next year, a news report said Friday.

22.   The central bank last month decided to move towards a single exchange rate by allowing the currency to float in accordance with its street value.

23.   The central bank last month decided to move toward a single exchange rate by allowing the currency to float in accordance with its street value.

24.   The currency now floats freely for ordinary transactions.

25.   Argentina will convert all bank deposits into pesos and allow the national currency to freely float against the US dollar, Economy Minister Jorge Remes Lenicov announced Sunday.

26.   The crisis in the peso was provoked when the new Mexican government allowed the currency to float, reversing a policy of defending the peso.