After rising against the dollar from just under $1.28 to nearly $1.31 in the early hours after the package was announced, the currency slipped back to close not far from where it started.
The U.S. administration has recently been applying pressure on China to revalue its currency in order to close the growing trade gap between the two countries.
At one point on Monday, 1 British pound bought just 98 euro cents, but the British currency rallied briefly to close with a pound trading at 1.105 euros.
The regulators in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency coordinated their decision to close Security Trust with Mr. Spitzer's office and the Securities and Exchange Commission, which both announced their own actions yesterday.
BUCKEYE TECHNOLOGIES, Memphis, which makes cotton-based pulp used in paper, diapers, mattress padding and currency, said it planned to close a plant in Glueckstadt, Germany, and cut 100 jobs.
The Bovespa index for the São Paulo stock exchange climbed 1 percent on Tuesday, while Brazil's currency, the real, strengthened slightly to close at almost 1.8 to the dollar.
A third element of rebalancing long sought by the United States — allowing China's currency to rise closer to its market value — appeared unlikely.
Do they serve to eliminate inefficiencies in the market and bring currency values close to their true underlying economic worth?
("They're broke, and these warheads were their best, their only chance to get hard currency quickly," someone "close to the negotiations" told the Times during the talks with Ukraine in early 1994, in what could easily have been a description of why a terrorist ended up with a bomb).
In the letter — a draft of which was reviewed by The New York Times — Mr. Brown will urge the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to keep a closer watch on the multibillion-dollar consulting industry, which has become something of a shadow regulatory force on Wall Street.
