1. Both the ringgit and rupiah are seen as vulnerable to a further slide because both countries have current account deficits. 2. Can a further slide there really spread outside its borders? 3. Government officials worried that a further slide in economic growth could fuel political unrest. 4. Indirectly, Mubarak called on the United States to get actively involved with the Israelis and the Palestinians to halt the further slide to bloodshed. 5. Not everyone said that a further slide in Japanese stocks will undermine the dollar. 6. Personally, Daino has sold stocks to protect himself from any further slide. 7. Although investors largely expect the central bank to leave its zero interest rate policy unchanged, they remain worried about a further slide in New York, he said. 8. Banks too had on their own taken steps to reduce loans to this sector as they feared a further slide in property values. 9. Given its expectations of continuing deterioration in world industrial production, the NAB also anticipates further slides in commodity prices and hence, the Australian dollar. 10. Greenspan hinted that a further slide of the dollar could be inflationary, and that he might raise U.S. interest rates to check that possibility. |