21.  Traders said that too could weigh on the Australian dollar, which typically takes a lead against global currencies from the benchmark U.S. dollar.

22.  Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has repeatedly blamed Western currency speculators for triggering the Asian financial crisis and has called for clampdowns on global currency trading.

23.  An additional unsettling factor was a sharp drop in the dollar Thursday morning in global currency trading.

24.  And the Japanese government has been very vocal about its aim to make the yen a global currency on par with the dollar and the newly launched euro.

25.  An additional unsettling factor was a sharp drop in the dollar in global currency trading.

26.  At a press conference, he dismissed quick-fix solutions to combat global currency volatility.

27.  But the market soon shook off worries that the global currency crisis was being re-ignited and made up the lost ground.

28.  But Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin indicated Monday that long-term global currency issues would be the focus of the meeting.

29.  George Soros, the global currency speculator, has finally aired his views on the prevailing Asian currency turmoil.

30.  However, they achieve much less agreement on strategies to cope with the global currency crisis.