1.   Also weighing on prices is the election last weekend of a more moderate president in Iran, Mohammad Khatami, traders said.

2.   Before the weekend election, PAN already governed Baja California and Chihuahua in the north.

3.   Both sides campaigned freely and openly ahead of the weekend election and vowed to honor the result.

4.   But in the campaign for the parliamentary elections this weekend, Japan is now discovering what happens to politics when you aim a television camera at it.

5.   Foreign investors in particular were selling after the weekend elections, traders said.

6.   Investors pushed the Australian dollar to a five-month high ahead of elections last weekend, in expectation of the victory by the Liberal and National parties coalition.

7.   Japanese stocks fell, led by automakers, as traders and investors lowered their expectations for economic reforms following gains by the pro-business Liberal Democratic Party in weekend elections.

8.   Japanese stocks amid uncertainty over the economic policy of the government following weekend elections and the outlook for corporate earnings.

9.   Meanwhile, the dollar could rise against the yen if results of the upper house elections this weekend lead to confusion in Japanese politics, some traders said.

10.   Mugabe belittled his opponent Thursday and promised new government aid to his impoverished people in one of his final campaign appearances before weekend elections.