We'll see now if the banks will:

1. purge their toxic assets

2. make loans as in prosperous years.

Seeing what happens will take three days, but without press and pundits saying much for as long as three months as the time to quarterly reports.

If the new plan doesn't work effectively, Congress just can't come up with more public funding without smashing the dollar to crumbs.

Nevertheless, the dollar has held up so far. So maybe there could be one more round. I doubt it.

The dollar has held up vis-avis foreign currencies because everybody else has been rushing to devalue as well. However if you look at fiat currencies verse gold the situation doesn't look as good.