51. Chipmakers were lower amid concern that the currency crisis in Asia will depress PC sales there. 52. Companies active in Asia also benefited from easing concerns over the currency crisis there. 53. Columns After Mexico, what happens the next time there is a currency crisis? 54. Currency crises have set back economic leaders Brazil and Argentina. 55. Countries inevitably run out of dollars to prop up their currency, accelerating the flight of investors and precipitating a currency crisis. 56. Declines were led by companies whose profits could be hurt by the currency crisis in Asia. 57. Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers leaves tonight for a global round of consultations with international financial officials on the currency crisis in Asia. 58. Economists have been paring their expectations for growth in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines as a result of recent currency crises in those countries. 59. Emerging market bond yields started rising a week ago amid concern the recent currency crisis in Asia would spill-over into Latin America. 60. Events have conspired to produce an all-out currency crisis that has funneled investors out of bonds and stocks and into currencies and short-term notes. |
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