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dollar widely lower.
Already unsettled by the Bundesbank's
sudden credit squeeze, it fell steeply
in terms of most Europdan currencies,
giving up three pfenVHgs ac-hlst the
Deutsche Mark, six cents against the
Swiss franc, and 13 cents !f-hnst a
French franc bolstdred by an optimistic
forecast from the country's employers.
* Sterling, helped by the Ehlers' bacU
to-work decision, rose 2.5c to $2.3100.
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