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In mid-October, the dollar fell below $1.26 per euro "for the first time since February, erasing this year's gain," reported Bloomberg financial news service on October 20. "Speculators are loading up with boatloads of euros," commented currency trader Grant Wilson of Mellon Financial Corporation. Summarized Chris Melendez, president of Tempest Asset Management in California: "We think the soft patch in the U.S. economy is getting softer."
In addition to the Dow descending below 10,000, crude oil reaching prices above $55 a barrel, our trade deficit approaching 6 percent of our gross domestic product, and the Treasury Department using Enron-style accounting tricks to avoid piercing the $7.4 trillion national debt limit, there were troubling indications that foreign investors might begin bailing out of the U.S. ...