Friday, October 29, 2010

Finance Leaders Call for IMF Role in Averting Protectionist `Currency War’

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I spoke to the Russian TV broadcaster Russia Today and the popular Indian website DNA India late last week about the escalating rhetoric surrounding the forex market. The video from RT is not available yet but the link to the DNA post is right below. Let me summarize my view. I believe the developed economies [...]

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Filed under: International Markets, Politics, Currency A weekend meeting of global finance ministers was sponsored by the International Monetary Fund to deal with the growing currency imbalances in world economies. The two big players — the U.S. and China — instead of reaching a consensus, ended farther apart with each side digging in and pushing [...]

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The markets are fractionally positive today as the bond market, banks and schools are all closed in observance of Columbus Day. The reason the bond market, banks and schools are mentioned is because that creates an environment where volume will be light. This helps the markets stay flat to positive regardless of other factors. The [...]

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In spite of ongoing currency wars, there are no surprises to report from G-20 participants at the IMF’s annual meeting. Indeed, I cannot recall ever being surprised by major agreements at any IMF or G-Whatever meeting. Year in and year out the achievement is the same, a pledge to cooperate more. This year we see [...]

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Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) — Eswar Prasad, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor at Cornell University, talks with about China’s currency policy, U.S.-China trade relations and the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting in Washington this past weekend. Prasad speaks with Erik Schatzker on Bloomberg Television’s “InsideTrack.” (Source: Bloomberg) @import ‘http://heyzap.com/elightbox/lightbox.external.css’; var heyzap_link [...]

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Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) — Richard Lambert, director general of the Confederation of British Industry, discusses the International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington and the outlook for U.K. bank lending and regulation. He talks with Andrea Catherwood on Bloomberg Television’s “The Pulse.” @import ‘http://heyzap.com/elightbox/lightbox.external.css’; var heyzap_link = new Heyzap(‘heyzap_games’, {“embed_key”: “d673fbb81e”}); Play games on Finance Blog

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The dollar fell against the euro and yen on Monday after the world’s top finance officials failed to reach a consensus on measures to head off what some see as a looming “currency war”, analysts said. The euro reached 1.40 dollars, while the US unit hit a fresh 15-year low against the yen amid growing [...]

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Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: Asian markets were mostly higher in overnight trading, with the Nikkei closed, and the Shanghai Composite up 2.49%. European markets are higher in morning trading and U.S. futures suggest a higher open. The big story of the weekend was the failure of the G-20 to come to [...]

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It’s boom time in Asia, only Premal Udani, who runs an Indian apparel exporting company, says he has little to show for it. A surging tide of foreign cash has helped drive stocks in Indonesia and the Philippines to record highs, while India‘s market has been flirting with a lifetime peak, but as Udani — [...]


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