Morgan said he would take immediate steps to arrange a loan, and he sent Thomas back to the Exchange.

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The biggest immediate test for the central bank will be how it handles its new foreign-exchange regime.

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But the world's immediate problem is a dramatic shortfall in demand across the globe and that will not be righted by exchange-rate shifts.

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