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2.Interest rates and financial market volatility would remain high due to the market uncertainty.
3.Indeed, continued uncertainty surrounding the currency turmoil in the region tend to keep interest rates high.
4.The Asian financial turmoil has resulted in a much higher interest rate, a much tighter liquidity situation in our banking system.
5.The economy has contracted, interest rates are higher and unemployment has risen. This has led to a sharp drop in the near-term demand for private sector residential property.
7.High property values have had a strong negative bearing on social stability and our economic vitality.
8.As a result of several attacks on the Hong Kong Dollar in the past four months, interest rates have gone up and have remained relatively high, even today.
9.The speculative activities against the Hong Kong dollar and the stock and futures markets have kept our interest rate high and also unstable. This will make the orderly adjustment very difficult.
10.The US current account deficit is forecast to increase again in 2006, Mr Rato said, partly because of the impact of high energy prices.
