1.   High-tech exports may be affected by slumping demand and sliding currencies in Asia, but so too are agricultural products and minerals.

2.   In South Korea, government officials moved decisively to stem fallout from their sliding currency, the won, and stanched the damage to their banks and economy.

3.   In the short term, a sliding currency will convince more companies to seek customers abroad, Vilatela said.

4.   The slowdown in Asia, prompted by sliding currencies and soaring interest rates, is seen curbing French exports next year.

5.   An economic slowdown and sliding currency are squeezing profits, and franchisees complain their sales are being decimated by a slew of new stores.

6.   Having failed to curb its sliding currency and kick start the economy by tightening its purse strings, Malaysia now intends to spend its way to recovery.

7.   Hong Kong Financial Secretary Donald Tsang on Tuesday urged Japan and the United States to help stabilize the sliding Japanese currency.

8.   In his first public comment since the dollar began plummeting a week ago, Greenspan said the sliding U.S. currency could increase inflationary pressure on the U.S. economy.

9.   Laila Kabir, president of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said the move was necessary in light of sliding southeast Asian currencies.

10.   The peso, meanwhile, was weaker at midday, taking its cue from other sliding currencies around the region, traders said.