The pound had stabilised in recent weeks, albeit well below levels recorded before the EU referendum.
Circulation fell by 15%, he reveals, but "stabilised" in the following months.
While case numbers appear to have fallen in Liberia and stabilised in Guinea, they continue to rise in Sierra Leone.
That should provide reassurance in the embattled euro area, where public and private-sector debt levels stabilised in 2013.
House prices turned up in Britain and stabilised in America (chart 1) but slid further in Spain.
The NAO's finding that debts were much higher than in 2010 defied assurances from Beijing that local government debt levels had stabilised in recent years.
Rather it has stabilised in a nation that, along with the UK and Luxembourg, once had the worst heroin problem in Europe.
There were repeated bouts of internal political and economic turmoil during the late 1990s and early 2000s, though the situation has stabilised in recent years.
Its government has revised official GDP figures, which now suggest the economy stabilised in the fourth quarter after a brief recession.
Healthy gains during September in North Sea production and car manufacturing stabilised in October, exposing declines in other areas of Britain's industrial base.
In a separate release the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said construction output stabilised in July, defying expectations among economists for another drop.
