That means a Senate vote on the China currency bill is unlikely to happen.
Meantime, risk assets such as world stock markets and many commodity markets, and the Euro currency, were pressured on the Italian vote news.
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The U.S. dollar index traded solidly lower Wednesday as the greenback bulls are fading again, as the Euro currency rallied on the affirmative Greek parliament vote.
Sweden's vote in September on adopting the single currency is likely to be close.
You might see that as a vote of confidence, that somehow the single currency will get through this intact.
Mr Clarke has promised a free vote on European issues, including joining a common currency.
On purely economic issues surrounding the currency, there was no reason why rural and urban Swedes should vote differently.
Almost all commentators on the Swedish rejection of the euro interpreted the vote as a rebuff to the EU, not just its currency.
While Tony Blair's government is currently feeling the full blast of farmers' anger, he may yet get their vote, as long as the Tories remain opposed to the single currency.
The lack of a clear path towards the formation of a government and anti-austerity vote remains a threat to the Eurozone and the 17-member single currency.
It is notable how, in France especially, the middle class, which had voted for the introduction of the single European currency, the euro, swung to the "no" side in the constitutional vote.
The vote could determine the country's future in the 17-nation euro currency bloc.
Sunday's vote was seen as a referendum on the survival of the continent's common currency.
This vote was a rejection of the austerity being pursued by Brussels to save the single currency.
The vote comes only days before Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is due to visit China to discuss the currency situation and other economic issues.
Time and again Greek MPs have been told that a "no" vote would lead to a "catastrophe", with Greece being forced out of the single currency.
The vote was widely seen as a referendum on whether Greece should remain in the euro, the currency used by 325 million people across 17 countries in Europe.
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