Asian economies are export driven, so their authorities will continue to worry about stronger currencies. There's a growing concern about intervention.

Demand for the dollar will likely remain strong through December, particularly with the bonus season bolstering Japanese retail buying.

Japanese investors have just started kicking in offshore investment at the beginning of the new fiscal year. They will do so more and more from now on, weighing down the yen.

These reports will support the euro by holding it above $1.19 against the dollar for the time being.

One can only assume what is causing concern is his protesting and his activism, which is a significant worry for the rest of us if people who are involved in nonviolent, political dissent are being deported.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.