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Heavy in dollars, China warns of depreciation
China on Friday offered a rare glimpse into its foreign exchange reserves, confirming that they are overwhelmingly allocated in dollars, while a central banker said the mountain of cash could ...
Central banker, Hu Xiaolian, China, BEIJING, REUTERS, All keywords...
economictimes.indiatimes.com
1 day ago
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Heavy in Dollars, China Warns of Depreciation
China on Friday offered a rare glimpse into its foreign exchange reserves, confirming that they are overwhelmingly allocated in dollars, while a central banker said the mountain of cash could ...
Reuters, China, Central banker, USD, Chinese government, All keywords...
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com
2 days ago
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France May Find Its G-20 Agenda a Tough Sell
PARIS — As France prepares to assume an agenda-setting role for the global economy, ambition is not in short supply. But implementing a Gallic vision of post-crisis capitalism, shorn of ...
Nicolas Sarkozy, G-20, PARIS, France, President, All keywords...
nytimes.com
2 days ago
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US set to decide on China currency dispute escalation
The US government is set to decide whether to escalate a dispute with China over its currency policy. The Commerce Department was asked by US manufacturers in April to look ...
China, United States, Tim Geithner, Department of Commerce, Commerce Department, All keywords...
bbc.co.uk
2 days ago
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Strong Yen Helps to Fuel Germany’s Export Boom
Because the Chinese currency moves in lockstep with the dollar, the yen is rising against the renminbi, even as the euro has gotten cheaper. But economists and company executives caution ...
Germany, Kuka, Japan, Machinery, China, All keywords...
nytimes.com
2 days ago
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Reinhart's Seven More Years of High Unemployment Hit Fed Today
Reinhart and his wife Carmen Reinhart presented a paper at the symposium that finds the U.S., Germany and other advanced economies may face a decade of slow growth and high ...
Carmen Reinhart, United States, Ben S, International Monetary Fund, Economist, All keywords...
bloomberg.com
1 week ago
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Import cover :
Countries hold foreign-exchange reserves partly to protect themselves against external crises. But how large a stash is enough? One common rule of thumb is that reserves that can cover three ...
China, Russia, India, Argentina, Thailand, All keywords...
economist.com
2 weeks ago
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Race to the bottom : A weak economy and an active Federal Reserve have driven the dollar down since June. Will that last?
THREE months ago, when Europe’s debt crisis had markets panicking about sovereign risk, it seemed that all roads led to the dollar. The greenback was rising against the other big ...
US Federal Reserve, America, Europe, Bank of Japan, Japan, All keywords...
economist.com
2 weeks ago
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Paper chains : Tight policies in surplus countries helped undo the gold standard, which is a lesson for the euro
CHRIS ROCK, a comedian, is a big fan of Oprah Winfrey, a television host and philanthropist. He recalls one of Ms Winfrey’s shows during which a woman confessed to her ...
America, Oprah Winfrey, Germany, Peter Temin, France, All keywords...
economist.com
2 weeks ago
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China Cuts Long-Term Treasuries By Most Ever as Yields Drop
China cut its holdings of Treasury notes and bonds by the most ever, raising speculation the plunge in U.S. yields that sent two-year rates to a record low has made ...
China, United States, USD, Japan, Bloomberg Television, All keywords...
bloomberg.com
2 weeks ago
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The End of Outsourcing
In the next five years outsourcing as we know it will disappear. The legion of Indian service providers will be sidelined or absorbed. U.S. and European companies that pioneered this ...
Amazon.com, Google, Computing, Tech services, Xerox, All keywords...
businessweek.com
3 weeks ago
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To Viktor go the spoils: how Hungary blazes a trail in Europe
The government of Hungary has taken on a lot of powerful interests in the last couple of months, and so far appears to be winning – despite provoking outrage from ...
Hungary, International Monetary Fund, Viktor Orban, Orban government, United States, All keywords...
guardian.co.uk
3 weeks ago
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IMF blueprint for a global currency – yes really
FT Alphaville missed this IMF paper when it first came out in April, 2010. Authored by Reza Moghadam, director of the IMF’s strategy, policy and review department, it discusses how ...
International Monetary Fund, Director, Reza Moghadam, China, Top 40, All keywords...
ftalphaville.ft.com
1 month ago
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Legal Outsourcing Pulls Western Talent to India
So far, the number of Western lawyers moving to outsourcing companies could be called more of a trickle then a flood. But that may change, as more business flows out ...
India, United States, Christopher Wheeler, Pangea3, Leah Cooper, All keywords...
nytimes.com
1 month ago
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Four Deformations of the Apocalypse
More fundamentally, Mr. McConnell’s stand puts the lie to the Republican pretense that its new monetarist and supply-side doctrines are rooted in its traditional financial philosophy. Republicans used to believe ...
USD, Gross domestic product, President, Bush, Mitch McConnell, All keywords...
nytimes.com
1 month ago
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