Trade deficit widens in December to six-month high - The Hill (blog)


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Trade deficit widens in December to six-month high
The Hill (blog)
Paul, among others, has pushed for Congress and the Obama administration to crack down on China for not allowing its currency to accelerate in value at a faster pace. "From a political point of view, the trade deficit with China shows just how little ...
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World's highest-valued currencies - Rediff


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World's highest-valued currencies
Rediff
Let's take a look at currencies that have the highest value in the world. The highest-valued currency unit is the currency in which a single unit buys the highest number of any given other currency or the largest amount of a given good.

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Swiss Consumer Prices Decline Most in Two Years on Franc Strength: Economy - Bloomberg


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Swiss Consumer Prices Decline Most in Two Years on Franc Strength: Economy
Bloomberg
Swatch Earnings The Swiss currency's ascent of 9 percent over the past year is weighing on export demand and adding pressure on companies to lower costs just as euro-region growth falters. In France, the area's second-largest economy, industrial output ...

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Warren Buffett: Stocks Are Better Than Gold - Benzinga

Warren Buffett: Stocks Are Better Than Gold
Benzinga
Currencies of all kinds have come and gone, including innumerable "paper" or fiat currencies, yet gold has held its value and continues to be desired by people across the planet as a store of wealth. This is a fact. Furthermore, unlike most financial ...

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Profit in the Investment Ecosystem: Catherine Austin Fitts - Business Insider

Profit in the Investment Ecosystem: Catherine Austin Fitts
Business Insider
We've printed lots and lots of paper, currency and government bonds and all sorts of other instruments, and piled it up with derivatives. We're going through a reset between the value of real things and the value of paper because the paper is very ...

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European Stocks Slide as Greeks Fail to Agree on Austerity Deal - BusinessWeek


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European Stocks Slide as Greeks Fail to Agree on Austerity Deal
BusinessWeek
11 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks fell from a six month-high this past week, as Greece's coalition government failed to agree on the remaining spending cuts needed to obtain financial aid from the European Union and stave off a default.
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Fed did not intervene in FX markets in Q4 - NY Fed - Reuters

Fed did not intervene in FX markets in Q4 - NY Fed
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31, the dollar's trade-weighted value, as measured by the Federal Reserve Board's major currencies index, rose 0.7 percent, the New York Fed said. The US currency gained 3.3 percent against the euro, driven by uncertainty about how European leaders ...

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