21.   Still, full-time employment growth was weaker than expected, weakening the dollar.

22.   Still, the Federal Reserve may not soon try to weaken the dollar, traders said.

23.   Stock prices slumped Wednesday as investors took profits from the recent rally, the dollar weakened and interest-rate jitters continued.

24.   Soss of Credit Suisse First Boston also argues that the dollar will be weakened by a slowdown in American productivity as a result of the terrorist attack.

25.   That can weaken the dollar because when international investors sell stocks, they often sell the dollars they receive for other currencies in search of better returns elsewhere.

26.   That would undermine confidence in U.S. assets and weaken the dollar, analysts said.

27.   That, in turn, would drive investors from American securities and weaken the dollar against the yen.

28.   That could prompt investors to sell U.S. bonds and then sell the dollar proceeds to move their money into other countries, weakening the dollar.

29.   The dollar weakened, hurt by a flight to German marks from Spanish pesetas and by selling by Japanese exporters.

30.   The dollar was weakened by falling U.S. bonds and stocks after stronger-than-expected reports on U.S. housing starts and consumer confidence.