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To: John Hunt who wrote (16125)8/6/1998 7:21:00 AM
From: John Hunt  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 18056
 
Hong Kong dollar fears spread jitters

biz.yahoo.com

<< The Hong Kong dollar came under intense pressure in both spot and forward markets amid talk of heavy U.S. dollar purchases by U.S. investment houses since Wednesday.

The size of the activity was not confirmed but traders speculated that it amounted to billions of U.S. dollars in the spot market and hundreds of millions in the forward market. >>




To: John Hunt who wrote (16125)8/6/1998 9:05:00 AM
From: Simon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 18056
 
John: Would you kindly refrain from doing these big buy programs in the last half and moving the mkt 185 points.
:-)
Making it rough on my nerves. EH



To: John Hunt who wrote (16125)8/6/1998 10:55:00 AM
From: yard_man  Respond to of 18056
 
Absurd. Yeah, right. Weakest president on foreign policy since Carter -- scratch that -- Carter had some guts.