Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Reserve Currency" produced 13 items.
| 1. Who will eclipse the US? | September 26, 2011 |
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How long can the US delay its inevitable decline? According to Voltaire, the Roman Empire fell “because all things fall”. It is hard to argue with this as a general... | |
| 2. The cost of America's free lunch | November 12, 2010 |
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Europe suffers from the same currency disadvantages as the US, but enjoys none of its privileges. For decades, the world has complained that the dollar's role as global... |
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| 3. Dollar in decline is causing tension | October 8, 2009 |
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The euro may be strong against the dollar, but changes in the currency market are not always a good thing. Robert Zoellick, the president of the World Bank, is no economic... |
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| 4. The dollar's last days as the dominant reserve currency? | May 20, 2009 |
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It is time to think of another reserve asset alongside the dollar and the euro. Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People's Bank of China, recently suggested that replacing... | |
| 5. The one-corner solution | January 19, 2009 |
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The European Central Bank's response to the economic crisis demonstrates how distinctions between eurozone and non-euro economies have blurred – and why there is a case for... | |
| 6. Euro brings US-style business culture to corporate Europe | May 19, 1999 |
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THE euro's daily pummelling in the foreign exchange markets, which has shaved more than 10% off its value against the dollar since its launch in January, is a sideshow... | |
| 7. Uncertainty reigns over a golden birth | April 23, 1998 |
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Where there is uncertainty there is risk and where there is risk there is opportunity, runs a favourite bankers' phrase. Just eight months before the introduction of the... | |
| 8. Preparing for euro-day | April 23, 1998 |
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FRANKLIN Roosevelt's aphorism, "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself", sums up retail and specialist banks' official stand as they wait for the euro to arrive. After... | |
| 9. A shock to the system for business | April 23, 1998 |
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THE politicians and central bankers are about to hand over the euro-baton to the business world. But no one is too sure how to handle it, because economic and monetary union... | |
| 10. Crisis takes Asian minds off euro | September 18, 1997 |
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SOUTH East Asia's currency crisis has shifted the priorities for this week's meeting between European and Asian finance ministers in Bangkok. The euro was originally... | |
| 11. LETTERS | July 10, 1997 |
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From Judith HardtWe refer to your article “Small change from bank reform” (volume 3, issue 24) concerning the European Commission's communication on the second banking... | |
| 12. Euro turns investment spotlight on Europe | April 24, 1997 |
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THE arrival of a single currency could signal a massive shift of investment funds away from the US markets into Europe. With this wake-up call, Yves-Thibault de Silguy and... | |
| 13. 8 February G7 finance ministers' meeting | February 13, 1997 |
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FINANCE ministers from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the United States agreed on the level the US dollar should stay at to prevent it from undermining... | |
