LONDON (AP) - Violent clashes in Egypt between pro- and anti-government demonstrators kept financial markets on edge Thursday, while the euro slid after the European Central Bank's president said high inflation would prove to be only temporary.
Traders are monitoring the situation in Cairo as protesters and regime supporters skirmished for a second day at a central Cairo square while new lawlessness spread around the city. New looting and arson erupted, and gangs of thugs supporting President Hosni Mubarak attacked reporters, foreigners and rights workers while the army rounded up foreign journalists.