1.   Authorities there fear that its collapse would trigger a severe investor panic and an economic crisis.

2.   Cardoso said the country would likely take no further measures to allay investor panic, which was not limited to Brazil.

3.   Highly integrated world capital markets ruthlessly punish bad economic policies, but investor panics also punish nations with sound ones.

4.   Sachs accuses the IMF of cracking down too hard in Asia, needlessly fueling investor panic.

5.   The more accurate data is intended to serve as an early warning system that would prevent investor panic.

6.   The order sparked investor panic, which caused the peso to collpase and, with it, investors to lose confidence in Mexico.