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Pro-North Korea paper confirms currency move
Seoul :: South Korea | 3 days ago
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A pro-Pyongyang newspaper confirmed on Friday the secretive North has revalued its currency, a move analysts said was aimed at curtailing a burgeoning market economy and clamping down on merchants. The communist North's official media has kept mum over...
Tags: South Korea, Seoul, Inflation, United States dollar, The Chosun Ilbo, Revaluation, Choson Sinbo, North Korea, Disaster Accident, Euro, North Korean media, The Chosun
The world banks on India: Zoellick
New Delhi :: India | 3 days ago
Credibility Robert Zoellick has seen a lot change over the course of a long career, first in the US government, now as the World Bank president. But perhaps the most startling change is in the way the world views India. ‘‘The outside world’s image of India now is...
Tags: India, world banks, Robert Zoellick, World Bank Group, president robert, Mr. Zoellick, growth rate, banks president, economic crisis, food price, New Delhi, Business Finance, World Bank, Development, International development, Council on Foreign Relations, International Republican Institute, world food price crisis, Peak oil, Manmohan Singh, Monetary policy, Multilateral development banks, Macroeconomics, Inflation, Food politics, Pranab Mukherjee, Agriculture, Environment, Economy of India, Foreign relations of India, Globalization
Red-hot gold a puzzle for investors
London :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility Gold's near vertical rise to new records is starting to puzzle many investors who are trying to square arguments fuelling its rise with seemingly conflicting moves in risky assets like equities or inflation-protected securities. This is not the stuff...
Tags: Investec Asset Management, U.S. Treasury, country inflation, United Kingdom, London, Financial crises, United States dollar, Business Finance, Macroeconomics, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Asset price inflation, Monetary policy, Euro
Why did North Korea sharply revalue its currency
According to news from the South Korean media, North Korea, Dec. 1, 2009, has sharply revalued its currency by issuing the first new banknotes for 17 years in an apparent attempt to curb inflation and clamp down on black-market trading. The exchange...
Tags: Pyongyang, free economy, North Korean economy, Monetary reform, Kim Jong-il, Kim’s regime, North Korea Marketing Economy, curb inflation, North Korea, allnews, Inflation, Currency, Business Finance, sharply revalued
A Study in Asian Contrasts
Tōkyō :: Japan | 3 days ago
Credibility Apparently, a rising tide of Japanese yen has lifted all boats elsewhere in Asia. But in North Korea, the financial situation is nothing short of a shipwreck. Two days after Japan's central bank announced plans to fire up the monetary printing press in...
Tags: Asian, Japan, Tōkyō, Japanese yen, Deflation, Business Finance, Inflation
Michigan tax revenues plummeting, but signs of hope seen in growing number of entrepreneurs
Lansing :: MI :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Michigan is facing the prospect of more cities in receivership and school districts running out of money as state and local tax revenues plummet in the year ahead, House Fiscal Agency director Mitch Bean warned Thursday. Nevertheless, economic development...
Tags: Michigan, tax revenues, fund revenues, general fund, Lansing, Business Finance, Finance, Flat tax, Inflation, Economy of Pakistan, Tax, Lansing Michigan, Income tax in the United States, Income tax, Supply-side economics, Value added tax, Education, Tax reform
Central bank not expected to rise policy rate until MID-2010: SCB unit
Bot :: Spain | 3 days ago
Credibility Thailand's policy interest rate will increase by 50 basis points in the second half of next year, from 1.25 per cent at present, says Siam Commercial Bank's Economic Intelligence Centre. The interest rate will likely remain unchanged until then, with...
Tags: Sethaput Suthiwart-narueput, EIC, US Federal Reserve Board, central banks, Spain, Bot, Interest, Business Finance, Inflation, Macroeconomics, Thai baht, Federal Reserve System, Bank of Thailand, Monetary policy, Economy of Thailand
Inflation rose to 2.8% in November
Manila :: Philippines | 3 days ago
Credibility Dec 5 (PNA) – Inflation in the Philippines rose to 2.8 percent in November from 1.6 percent in October as damages caused by typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng caused prices of some agricultural products to rise. The rate brought inflation for the first 11 months...
Tags: Philippines, Manila, Business Finance, Inflation, Disaster Accident, Central banks, Weather, Typhoon Ketsana, Management, Computer-assisted telephone interviewing, Information technology management, Outsourcing, Knowledge process outsourcing, Macroeconomics, Offshoring, International economics, Monetary policy, Business process outsourcing, Pacific typhoon season, Typhoons in the Philippines, Typhoon Parma, China
Dollar soars after unemployment rate drops
Tōkyō :: Japan | 3 days ago
Credibility The dollar leaped higher Friday after the government said the U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 10 percent in November, leading traders to weigh chances that the the Federal Reserve might begin raising interest rates sooner than they had expected. The...
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Sensex ends 0.49 percent down
Taipei :: Taiwan | 3 days ago
Credibility At the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the broader 50-share S&P CNX Nifty shut at 5,108.9 points, against the previous close at 5,131.7 points, a loss of 22.8 points or 0.44 percent. Broader market indices ended mixed as the BSE midcap index closed 0.19...
Tags: Taiwan, Taipei, BSE Sensex, Business Finance, Bombay Stock Exchange, Economy of Mumbai, Hindalco Industries, KOSPI, Euro, S&P CNX Nifty, Reliance Communications, S&P, United States dollar, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Inflation, Hindustan Unilever, National Stock Exchange of India, S&P CNX 500, Grasim Industries, ICICI Bank, world food price crisis, Reliance Industries
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