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Your support makes all the difference.AS BARINGS gradually faded from centre stage, the limelight was taken by the turmoil on the currency markets. The US dollar lost ground against the Japanese yen and the German mark while France, Italy and Denmark had to raise domestic interest rates to save themselves from following Spain and Portugal into devaluation. Meanwhile, the Mexican peso continued to plumb new lows.
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