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FINANCIAL TIMES | PRESS RELEASE China Fund Takes a Hit | Anthony Bolton, who manages a fund called Fidelity China, said it had lost big because of its exposure to American-listed Chinese companies, a sector hit by recent accounting scandals.

"Last year, WorldCom was at an advantage because of its exposure to business spending, this year it came back to bite them," says Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein analyst Bruce Roberts.*.*

But investors were worried that the company may face a liquidity problem because of its exposure to auction-rate securities it has been holding as investments, delaying the construction of new plants.

So far, only the enterprising UniCredit has suffered, largely because of its exposure in Germany where in 2005 it bought HypoVereinsbank.The government has belatedly begun to equip itself with legislation to allow it to intervene in the banks.

Weir had argued it needed to change its pay deals because of its exposure to volatile commodity markets.

Merrill Lynch said yesterday that it would take a $7.9 billion write-down because of its exposure to collateralized debt obligations, complex debt instruments and subprime mortgages.

Because of the skewed distribution of its exposure, benzene values were log-transformed.

Hungary and Latvia were particularly vulnerable; Hungary because of its deep exposure to foreign lending, and Latvia because of its shaky banking system and overextended consumers.

But because of its southern exposure and intense light, along with street noise and dust, being outside was not always comfortable.

Slovenia meanwhile is in poor shape, partly again because of its high exposure to the euro zone but also because of a weak and poorly capitalized banking system.

For much of this year, investors favored BP stock because of its high exposure to the United States gas market, particularly after its purchase of Atlantic Richfield a year ago and its earlier acquisition of Amoco.