41.   Many believe Washington is allowing the dollar to fall as a means of pressuring Japan to make concessions in auto trade talks.

42.   Movement on the currency market was slow ahead of auto trade talks between the United States and Japan starting Thursday in Geneva.

43.   Movement on the currency market was slow ahead of auto trade talks between the United States and Japan starting Thursday in Geneva, dealers said.

44.   Nissan said the construction of the plant is in line with its global business plan announced in June during the troubled U.S.-Japan auto talks.

45.   Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said such espionage would not have adversely affected the outcome of the auto talks in Geneva.

46.   Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama shrugged off the report, saying any such espionage activities had not influenced the outcome of the bilateral auto trade talks.

47.   Prospects for a breakthrough in long-stalled auto talks between the United States and Japan appear bleak with the two countries at loggerheads over a key point.

48.   Q. The Japanese are threatening to pull out of auto talks unless U.S. negotiators stop threatening sanctions.

49.   Share prices fell on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Wednesday, dragged down by an uninspiring government land auction and pessimism over U.S.-Japan auto trade talks.

50.   Stalled U.S.-Japan auto trade talks may resume as early as next week in Tokyo, a Japanese official said Thursday.