The People's Bank resumed devaluations — minute, daily devaluations — in December on the hopes that no one would notice.
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A lot of the turmoil has been over currency devaluations.
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Those devaluations kept Italian industry competitive despite consistently high inflation.
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Fitch regards the probability of such simultaneous devaluations as very low.
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This week Steve Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, warned China against "competitive devaluations".
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Devaluations in other countries, including South Africa and Turkey, have also disappointed.
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"You see [devaluations] almost everywhere except for the United States," he said.
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Zhou has also pledged to avoid devaluations to gain a trade advantage.
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It provides redemption flexibility and isn't subject to blackout dates or devaluations.
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What they're doing with the devaluations of their currencies is just unbelievable.
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And frankly, because of the devaluations that other countries - the monetary devaluations that other countries are constantly doing and brilliantly doing against us, it's very, very hard for our companies in this country, in our country, to compete.
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And frankly, because of the devaluations that other countries — the monetary devaluations that other countries are constantly doing and brilliantly doing against us, it's very, very hard for our companies in this country, in our country, to compete.
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The communique reiterated the member countries' pledge to refrain from competitive currency devaluations.
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But although devaluations may not be pleasant, they are meant to be nutritious.
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But devaluations do not seem to have provided quite the same boost recently.
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Devaluations could form part of loan deals, two banking sources said on Monday.
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Even following several devaluations over those six years, that's still an excellent return.
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China has always opposed competitive currency devaluations as a way to boost export competitiveness.
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Currency devaluations and trading conditions in markets elsewhere on the continent have also hurt.
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These large currency devaluations can hurt, by raising the price of imports and spurring inflation.
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He trumpets the virtues of tariffs that Beijing has already defeated through recent currency devaluations.
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The G20 has been repeating the same sentence about refraining from competitive devaluations for years.
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Besides, national currency devaluations often fail; they can destroy middle-class savings in the process.
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I've spent-- a lot of time myself in Latin America, actually, in 100%, 200% devaluations.
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A spokesman said currency devaluations in Argentina and Brazil had crimped the purchasing power of travelers.
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Pakistan has ballooning current and fiscal account deficits and has seen repeated devaluations of the rupee.
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The U.S.-China trade war has stocks in free fall with surprise tariffs and currency devaluations.
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"We have an international consensus about avoiding competitive devaluations, and we stick with that international consensus."
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"G20 countries should refrain from competitive devaluations and resist all forms of protectionism," the ministers said.
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Just like the British Airways example above, mile and point devaluations and inflation are very real.
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Hume thought the free market would correct these imbalances, through what we now call currency devaluations.
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Any campaign to devalue the world's anchor could set off a destructive wave of competitive devaluations.
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Such monetary incontinence, unchecked, leads to a spiral of food shortages, price hikes and currency devaluations.
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This could therefore spark another wave of competitive devaluations around Asia and in other key economies.
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Devaluations by the so-called Asian tigers could dampen global growth even further, foreign exchange specialists say.
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Under the old exchange rate mechanism, countries like Italy would undergo periodic devaluations to restore their competitiveness*.
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The world's financial leaders will renounce competitive devaluations and warn against exchange rate volatility, a document showed.
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If they had their own currency, Greece and Spain would have used devaluations to provide economic stimulus.
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Economists say devaluations are usually done in increments of tens, thousands or millions to facilitate the math.
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He also he referred to a communique agreed by IMF members last year that denounced competitive devaluations.
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A draft communique circulated last week showed they may no longer explicitly reject protectionism or competitive currency devaluations.
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Weak North American ethanol prices and devaluations in emerging market currencies dented results for starches, sweeteners and texturizers.
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Devaluations drive up prices of imports for ordinary Mexicans and tend to be covered prominently in national media.
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This exposure leaves borrowing countries vulnerable to sudden capital outflows and currency devaluations vis-a-vis the dollar.
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Multiple devaluations have followed, reaching the point where most Venezuelan bills are worth no more than Monopoly money.
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Most GCC currencies have rebounded in the forwards markets, showing investors no longer think devaluations may be imminent.
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"Competitive devaluations to stimulate the economy will not work and all will lose as a consequence," he said.
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"We will refrain from competitive devaluations and will not target our exchange rates for competitive purposes," it added.
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The final say on major economic decisions, like interest rate moves or devaluations, belongs to the country's political leadership.
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Emerging-market currencies firmed, led by the Indian rupee after China said it won't retaliate with competitive currency devaluations.
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Elsewhere, inflation, devaluations and economic turmoil caused the cost of living in Argentina, Brazil, Turkey and Venezuela to plunge.
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Any greenback appreciation against major currencies will now look more like devaluations of the yuan versus the U.S. dollar.
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China's series of yuan devaluations also raises concerns about the cost of crude, which is priced in U.S. dollars.
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He said Chinese currency devaluations are "going to hurt them badly" over time and force Beijing to make concessions.
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Emerging market currencies strengthened, led by the Indian rupee after China said it would not retaliate with competitive devaluations.
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Traditionally, interest rates on rupiah loans have been high, partly because of the Indonesian currency's history, which includes whopping devaluations.
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" On competitive forex devaluations: "As for whether the G20 will specifically coordinate exchange rates, it has never done this before.
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Steven Mnuchin, America's treasury secretary, warned China against competitive devaluations in an interview with the Financial Times on October 10th.
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First, the company said that currency devaluations since the carrying values were first established in 2005 played a significant role.
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There all of these built-in, longstanding devaluations of women, objectification of women that is even shared by many women.
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Currency devaluations in export African markets such as Nigeria and Mozambique have hit demand and threaten to permanently hurt operations.
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This might trigger counterproductive devaluations in other emerging-market currencies and send a negative signal to markets about Chinese stability.
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This was the belief that trade flows barely respond to price signals, and hence that devaluations don't help alleviate imbalances.
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Australia also risks becoming caught up in any rounds of competitive devaluations as its economy's biggest export market is China.
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Foreign deals allow Chinese companies to move money abroad with the blessing of Chinese officials while avoiding potentially painful devaluations.
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Emerging-market currencies strengthened, led by the Indian rupee after China said it would not retaliate with competitive currency devaluations.
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" He then quoted from an agreement reached in Washington in October under which countries promised to "refrain from competitive devaluations.
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The owner of Checkers and Usave retail chains said it is battling with currency devaluations in Angola, Zambia and Nigeria.
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Emerging-market currencies firmed, led by the Indian rupee after China said it would not retaliate with competitive currency devaluations.
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The People's Bank of China governor's statement to the IMF steering committee echoed Fund members' to avoid competitive currency devaluations.
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A draft of the G20 communique seen by Reuters showed ministers may no longer explicitly reject protectionism or competitive currency devaluations.
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But there is an understandable fear that the yuan may slip anchor, potentially touching off a round of devaluations in Asia.
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South African retailers have been performing poorly in the rest of Africa as low economic growth and currency devaluations hit sales.
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Both countries said they would "refrain from competitive devaluations and not target exchange rates for competitive purposes", the fact sheet said.
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President Trump tweeted Monday that he will restore steel and aluminum tariffs against Brazil and Argentina due to their currency devaluations.
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Rather him, his rivals may think, to force through IMF demands for austerity, subsidy cuts and further devaluations to the Pakistani rupee.
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"We will refrain from competitive devaluations, and will not target our exchange rates for competitive purposes," the IMFC said in a statement.
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It has also created more concerns for global investors with a potential wave of currency devaluations among South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan,
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He called that prospect "frankly perverse" because copycat devaluations would leave everyone in the same position and would not really alter anything.
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But investors did not expect the meeting to produce any agreement to stop currency devaluations since G-20 meetings have historically disappointed.
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The central bank allowed incremental devaluations, then began to ration dollars at formal auctions that it used to set the exchange rate.
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The purchase follows months of stiff devaluations of cybersecurity firms after a spate of headline-grabbing hacks sent prices skyrocketing in 2015.
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That, in turn, has stoked fears of a cycle of competitive devaluations and prompted some policymakers to think about more radical tools.
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We don't know what we're doing when it comes to devaluations and all of these countries all over the world, especially China.
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The central bank also took measures to maintain market liquidity during the international turmoil that has provoked record devaluations in local assets.
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That would be a tax that would be an equivalent to some of the kind of, you know, devaluations that they've done.
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The purchase follows months of stiff devaluations of cybersecurity firms after a spate of headline-grabbing hacks sent prices skyrocketing in 2628.
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Lew, in a bilateral meeting with Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso, reiterated the need for G-20 members to refrain from competitive devaluations.
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The devaluations have stoked inflation worries and are putting extra pressure on debt servicing, which is a major concern for the new government.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Saturday that the U.S. will insist measures to prevent currency devaluations be included in future trade deals.
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The Trump administration's declaration that China is a currency manipulator may be setting the stage for a deeper round of competitive currency devaluations.
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Cuts to subsidies on top of big devaluations in both Argentina and Egypt have pushed up inflation rates to 22% and 31% respectively.
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However, Unilever pointed to a challenging market environment throughout 2018, in particular currency devaluations and rising commodity costs that put pressure on demand.
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Pakistan's central bank has implemented five currency devaluations since December 2016 that have weakened the Pakistani rupee over 26 percent against the dollar.
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A shock devaluation of the yuan last August and further declines earlier this year sparked financial market turmoil and worries about further devaluations.
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It could also trigger a wave of currency devaluations and protectionist measures across the globe — further putting downward pressure on global economic growth.
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If you save them too long for a rainy day, they may lose some value due to point "devaluations" at partner travel programs.
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But he echoed BoE Governor Mark Carney's concerns that such a move could hurt bank lending and lead to competitive exchange rate devaluations.
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Given Argentina's history of cyclical economic crises and currency devaluations, people there have tended to keep their money out of the banking system.
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The communique will keep a pledge to avoid competitive currency devaluations, though the language on exchange rates had not been finalised, the officials said.
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Turmoil caused by the likes of China's currency devaluations and the UK's decision to leave the European Union also weighed heavily on inflation expectations.
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And because of the strength of the US dollar and currency devaluations elsewhere, there have been a few major shifts in this year's rankings.
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The official noted that all G7 members had agreed that competitive devaluations of foreign exchange rates should not be used as a policy tool.
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Deutsche's Asset and Wealth Management's Americas division is known for products that reduce the risk of currency devaluations, which lower returns on international stocks.
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A local investment banker said Egypt would avoid one problem often faced by countries after devaluations: an inflated debt burden for companies borrowing abroad.
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Indeed, if they agree on anything, it is that countries should avoid generating growth at the expense of other nations through competitive currency devaluations.
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That could be interesting for currency markets since the G-20 finance leaders are believed to have agreed not to engage in competitive devaluations.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has no intention and no need to carry out competitive currency devaluations, the head of the country's foreign exchange regulator said.
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Merkel said there were no winners from competitive currency devaluations, adding that the "comparative stability of currencies to one another is of great value".
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"As we look at trade issues there is no question that we want to make sure China is not doing competitive devaluations," Mnuchin said.
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Currency wars — in which countries get locked in a cycle of devaluations — hit both consumers and businesses, triggering inflation and sending asset prices plummeting.
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The currency agreement contains pledges by China to refrain from competitive currency devaluations and to not target its exchange rate for a trade advantage.
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The G-20 will say the members will refrain from competitive devaluations, and will not target exchange rates for competitive purposes, the draft showed.
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In public, G7 finance officials meeting in Sendai will likely repeat previous commitments not to manipulate exchange rates and to refrain from competitive devaluations.
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Before the currency was free-floated on the international market in 1995, periodic devaluations hit the country, usually during presidential transitions every six years.
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That's a slight bump (pre-money) on that 2015 fundraise when Ola was valued at $5 billion post-money which is notable given recent devaluations.
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The media warns of a "currency war," or, in economists' lingo, "competitive devaluations" (using your currency to purchase the foreign currency you want to strengthen).
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At the end of 2019, Argentina inflation was running at close to 54% - the highest in 28 years - and its currency had suffered repeated devaluations.
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The renminbi gained for a third day while stocks finished in the black after Premier Li Keqiang said Beijing will not engage in competitive currency devaluations.
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We reaffirm our previous exchange rate commitments, including that we will refrain from competitive devaluations and we will not target our exchange rates for competitive purposes.
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Since their respective crises and devaluations in the mid- to late 1990s, the peso and real have almost always been positively correlated, rising or falling together.
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Italy went through a period of steady devaluations from the 2628s through the 28503s during which the lira dropped by 22019 percent against the US dollar.
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"Most countries would no longer benefit from local currency invoicing, which would exacerbate the effects on inflation if they undertook large exchange rate devaluations," Draghi said.
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RenCap suggests he is right - its study of 13 devaluations showed equity investors made the best returns if they invested six months after an initial devaluation.
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The currency is now trading at about 115.50/116 to the U.S. dollar, down 9.8 percent in last six months after two separate devaluations since December.
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Known as the "December error," the 28503–22019 Mexican financial crisis detonated the so-called Tequila Effect, a series of currency devaluations in other emerging markets.
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On a reported basis, full-year sales fell 3 percent, hurt by international currency devaluations and the loss of disposed assets such as Diageo's wine business.
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Devaluations - mostly from Argentina but also Russia and Mexico - cost P&G roughly $300 million in December and January, Chief Financial Officer Jon Moeller told analysts.
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The central bank has said it would recapitalise the banking sector to tackle weak capital bases over the next five years after a series of currency devaluations.
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This was good for the international community and would avoid negative spillover effects from a disorderly exchange rate adjustment or competitive devaluations by other currencies, Pan wrote.
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Echoing these fears, the finance minister of Mexico, Luis Videgaray, warned on Thursday that the Chinese currency actions could lead to a new round of competitive devaluations.
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They are paying us Tens of Billions of Dollars, made possible by their monetary devaluations and pumping in massive amounts of cash to keep their system going.
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"The devaluations by Fidelity and BlackRock have sent a signal to the industry and are also being closely followed here," said Germany-based financing consultant Peter Barkow.
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So that means we are taking in billions of dollars, we are not paying for it and ultimately their devaluations are going to hurt them very badly.
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The currency agreement contains pledges by China to refrain from competitive currency devaluations and to not target its exchange rate for a trade advantage, according to USTR.
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Nigeria's central bank has said it would pursue a recapitalisation of the banking sector over the next five years after a series of currency devaluations weakened banks' capital.
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"We are seeing positive signs in the economy overall," he told Reuters, talking about a "bottoming out" of currency devaluations in places such as India, Indonesia and Brazil.
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If the central bank is forced into repeated devaluations to keep up with the black market, this would be a nightmare for authorities trying to stabilize the economy.
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To the Germans, who feared they would eventually foot the bill for profligate southerners, the prize was a stable currency and an end to competitive devaluations by Italy.
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That's what we're working on in Egypt or aspire to in Pakistan where they had a big problem with devaluations, with weakness of currency and with high inflation.
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He responded to the crisis either with half-measures, such as inadequate devaluations of the official bolívar, or policies that made things worse, such as new price controls.
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The low-cost airline said on Friday that the loan amount from Fastjet Zimbabwe to Annunaki had increased from $5 million to $7 million, after certain currency devaluations.
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He cites structural problems in the Chinese economy – such as over-dependence on real estate and exports – as well as the likelihood of devaluations by rival trading nations.
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CURRENCY The currency agreement contains pledges by China to refrain from competitive currency devaluations and to not target its exchange rate for a trade advantage, according to USTR.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said earlier on Friday it was important for G7 economies to reinforce pledges to refrain from competitive currency devaluations at their meeting next week.
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China allowed the biggest fall in the yuan in five months on Thursday, pressuring regional currencies and sending global markets tumbling as investors feared it would trigger competitive devaluations.
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Monday's gains brought the first significant strengthening in years for the rupee, which had weakened more than 20 percent since December after four separate devaluations by the central bank.
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"We reaffirm our previous exchange rate commitments, including that we will refrain from competitive devaluations and we will not target our exchange rates for competitive purposes," the G20 said.
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Albert Edwards, the notoriously bearish analyst at the French bank, released a note on Wednesday in response to the recent currency devaluations by the People's Bank of China (PBoC).
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It also squeezes the purchasing power of Chinese consumers and thus slows the rebalancing of its economy from investment to consumption, while irking America and encouraging competitive devaluations elsewhere.
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The IMF thinks this accounts for much of the sluggishness of Japan's exports; the World Bank argues that it explains about 40% of the diminished impact of devaluations globally.
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Baqir was last month appointed to lead the central bank in Pakistan, which has been hit by ballooning current and fiscal account deficits and repeated devaluations of the rupee.
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Increasing dollar demand in recent months has dented the central bank's efforts to restore faith in the manat after two devaluations last year halved its value against the dollar.
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BOJ officials publicly deny their ultra-easy policy is aimed at weakening the yen, as it would go against a Group of 20 agreement to avoid competitive currency devaluations.
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But Lew reiterated his warning that Japan must refrain from competitive currency devaluations, suggesting that Washington was in no mood to allow Tokyo to intervene to weaken the yen.
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Last week, the central bank said it would pursue a recapitalisation of the banking sector over the next five years after a series of currency devaluations weakened bank capital.
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Goldman Sachs and Citigroup strategists last month reduced 22017 and 2020 earnings estimates for the S&P 500, citing a sluggish economy, trade war threats and potential currency devaluations.
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PAGE 5-1 The Parties shall refrain from competitive devaluations and not target exchange rates for competitive purposes, including through large-scale, persistent, one-sided intervention in exchange markets.
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The big picture: The announcement also comes the same day that Trump tweeted he will restore steel and aluminum tariffs against Brazil and Argentina due to their currency devaluations.
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To investors, the rate cut smacked of desperation and it indicated that global central bankers are moving toward a round of competitive devaluations, or currency wars, to stimulate their economies.
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Jeroen Dijsselbloem, chairman of euro zone finance ministers, said G20 members had agreed to inform each other in advance about policy decisions that could lead to devaluations of their currencies.
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It has spent hundreds of billions of dollars in the past year to shore up the yuan, but still allowed two sharp devaluations of the currency that rattled global markets.
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Statutory profit for the year ended June tumbled to A$311 million ($210.70 million) from a profit of A$1.03 billion a year earlier, dented by devaluations in certain portfolios.
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Asked about the European Central Bank's decision on Thursday to cut interest rates, Trump told CNBC that such devaluations were driving manufacturing and other jobs outside of the United States.
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"As far as the currency devaluations, I have been complaining about that for a long time," Trump told reporters at a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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"We reaffirm our previous exchange rate commitments, including that we will refrain from competitive devaluations and we will not target our exchange rates for competitive purposes," the G-20 said.
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China's current account surplus fell below the threshold of three percent of gross domestic product, and it has not been engaged in "persistent one-sided intervention" despite two yuan devaluations.
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Syngenta's large exposure to Latin America and other emerging markets has meant that reported earnings have been affected by large devaluations in the Brazilian real, Ukrainian hryvnia and Russian rouble.
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"It's important that the G7 has an agreement not only to refrain from competitive devaluations, but to communicate so that we don't surprise each other," Lew told reporters on Saturday.
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There was a general consensus that the old system of exchange rates and payments had failed, leading to the Great Depression, currency devaluations and the collapse of the gold standard.
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Couple this notion with the forces weighing on investor psyche — such as trade wars, geopolitical tensions, currency devaluations, and central-bank activity — and it's difficult to stick to a plan.
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The draft communique seen by Reuters has removed references to "excess volatility" and "disorderly" FX moves from last year's statement, as well as a pledge to refrain from "competitive devaluations".
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And there is unlikely to be any appetite for currency wars, so the pledge to resist "excess volatility and disorderly movements" and refrain from "competitive devaluations" could still get reinserted.
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The logic of value and its obverse, worthlessness, unfolds its annihilating consequence, compelling ever new, ever deeper discriminations, criminalizations, and devaluations to the point of annihilating all of unworthy life.
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The slowdown in China and other top emerging markets is being driven by a number of factors: government pressure on drug prices, slowing economies and in some cases significant currency devaluations.
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Further declines could send shockwaves around the world as they could trigger further capital flight from China and potentially set off competitive currency devaluations in other countries, some economists have said.
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Some observers attribute the renminbi's slide to a four-year low against the dollar on Thursday as an attempt by Beijing to pursue competitive devaluations on behalf of its struggling exporters.
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Financial leaders from the world's biggest economies reiterated their warnings against competitive devaluations and disorderly foreign exchange markets at the meeting in the German town of Baden-Baden over the weekend.
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Santander said business in its largest market Brazil helped it through a squeeze on margins in Europe that is pressuring its peers, as well as softening the impact of currency devaluations.
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If the bearish case does come true, then it sounds more like 1998 when a round of Asian devaluations was triggered by the realisation that growth had been fuelled by speculation.
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A key member of the European Central Bank (ECB) has highlighted tensions in the international currency markets, raising the threat that competitive devaluations could have on the euro zone's economic recovery.
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But they have failed to turn the market tide as investors bet that Tokyo will not be able to intervene due to a G20 agreement warning countries against competitive currency devaluations.
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A senior Japanese Finance Ministry official said Tokyo will not resort to competitive currency devaluations that aim to keep the yen artificially low for a very long time to boost exports.
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However, stress has increased significantly in 2016 in some frontier markets, in particular Azerbaijan, Nigeria and Belarus, which have seen sharp asset quality deterioration and FX liquidity squeezes following currency devaluations.
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Devaluations and one of the world's highest inflation rates have forced Teva and a slew of other companies to mark down the value of their assets using less favorable exchange rates.
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Elevated household debts, higher fuel and electricity prices and an increase in value-added tax also squeezed consumer income at home, while sharp currency devaluations elsewhere in Africa weighed on profit.
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We don't know what we're doing when it comes to devaluations, and all of these countries all over the world, especially China, they are the best, the best ever at it.
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In the absence of a co-ordinated adjustment to exchange rates and a peaceful end to trade hostilities, the world could stumble into a cycle of competitive devaluations and tariff rises.
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The G20 pledge not to use competitive devaluations to gain advantage in international trade will remain in place, although the language on foreign exchange had not been finalised yet, officials said.
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For global policymakers, the verbal volleys from Washington sharpen the focus on the Group of 20 leading nations' commitment to "abstain from competitive devaluations and not set exchange targets for competitive reasons".
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund's steering committee said on Saturday the group's members pledged to refrain from competitive currency devaluations and not target exchange rates to gain an advantage.
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In another statement, released after the meeting closed, Lew underlined again the importance of the agreement, struck when the G-20 met in Shanghai, China, in February, on avoiding competitive currency devaluations.
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The pharmaceutical industry tends to measure its sales performance in local currencies but in dollar terms devaluations wiped an estimated 77 percent off emerging market growth between 2013 and 2015, IMS calculates.
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The country would like to see the yen remain relatively weak to support its exporters, but the market thinks Japan has to tread carefully lest it is accused of engineering competitive devaluations.
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Prices have risen since the pound plummeted to record lows on the black market in recent months, prompting the central bank to make two steep devaluations since the start of the year.
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With the G20 major economies warning against competitive devaluations, however, many market players expect Japan to refrain from currency intervention for fear of being criticized as adopting a "beggar-thy-neighbor" policy.
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To start, I make sure I've used all the annual benefits and credits, that I've reviewed any devaluations from the past year, and that I've updated myself on each card's current benefits.
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" Echoing sentiments from the G20 statement, the 24-member IMFC said countries should "refrain from all forms of protectionism and competitive devaluations, and to allow exchange rates to respond to changing fundamentals.
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"The United States will probably keep emphasizing that countries shouldn't resort to competitive currency devaluations, while Japan will argue that excess volatility is undesirable," said a G7 source familiar with the negotiations.
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Her lieutenants talk openly about wanting to leave the euro, redenominating French euro assets and debt in a new currency on a "one franc to one euro" basis, and undertaking competitive devaluations.
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga warned on Monday that the Group of 20 rich nations' agreement to eschew competitive currency devaluations was no bar to Japan intervening to stop "one-sided" moves.
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Others are ones whose annual fees I have paid in the past but because of devaluations or changes to my travel schedule, I no longer find it worthwhile to hold the card.
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It's also how currency devaluations work: you increase the competitiveness of your domestic industries at the expensive of lowering the real living standards of people who don't have jobs in tradable sectors.
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But credit card points are only valuable if you use them — and the longer you wait to redeem them, the bigger the chance that they&aposll lose value due to program devaluations.
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That was a reference to last October's International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington where countries had agreed they would "refrain from competitive devaluations and ... not target our exchange rates for competitive purposes".
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The economy's struggles were in part a legacy of devaluations against the Deutschmark earlier in the decade, when speculators broke the bounds of Europe's exchange-rate mechanism, a system that limited currency fluctuations.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, in an interview with the Financial Times this week, warned China not to engage in competitive devaluations of the yuan and noted the currency has fallen "significantly" this year.
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He also introduced a multiple exchange rate regime to try to mask pressure on the naira and avoid a series of devaluations, a step that has kept liquidity tight in Africa's biggest economy.
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"Some of our biggest emerging markets have seen huge currency devaluations," said Christophe Weber, CEO of Takeda Pharmaceutical, which ramped up its exposure to new markets in 2011 by buying Swiss group Nycomed.
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P&G said that currency devaluations and market contraction of blades and razors, primarily in developed markets, led the company to adjust the carrying values of goodwill and intangible assets for the business.
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"There is real concern that, in the face of the deceleration of the Chinese economy, the public policy response will be to start a round of competitive devaluations," said Luis Videgaray, finance minister.
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The People's Bank of China tried to remedy this with a small but sharp devaluation last August, which prompted fears of Chinese Armageddon, in turn causing the People's Bank to suspend further devaluations.
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The Fed duly tightened in December, after the International Monetary Fund included the yuan in its preferred basket of reserve currencies, a decision which China did not want to muddy with contentious devaluations.
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While its international operations saw sales fall 4.9% hurt by currency devaluations and anti-immigrant attacks, the supermarket operator reported a 10.3% rise in South Africa for the three months to Sept 30.
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This flexibility is really important considering some of the program devaluations we've seen this year and that will likely continue as more people begin maximizing their points and miles through rewards credit cards.
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SHANGHAI, Feb 26 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Friday countries should use all policy levers available, including fiscal, monetary and structural, to support their economies but avoid competitive currency devaluations.
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A draft communique showed finance ministers and central bank heads from G20 countries may no longer explicitly reject protectionism or competitive currency devaluations, promising only to keep an "open and fair international trading system".
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Under the Bretton Woods system, devised in part by John Maynard Keynes (pictured, left), currencies were fixed to the dollar (with scope for occasional devaluations or revaluations) and the dollar was fixed against gold.
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Finance Minister Taro Aso and other policymakers have repeatedly said that a one-off intervention in response to "one-sided currency moves" wouldn't breach a Group of 20 agreement to avoid competitive currency devaluations.
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In the last two weeks, strategists at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup have reduced 2019 and 2020 earnings estimates for the S&P 500, citing a sluggish economy, trade war threats and potential currency devaluations.
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Finance ministers from twenty of the world's biggest economies held a two-day meeting, and warned against competitive devaluations and disorderly FX markets but failed to agree on keeping global trade free and open.
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But Japan is bound by a G20 agreement which prevents them from entering into competitive currency devaluations, something the United States issued a strong reminder about earlier this year, as the yen began appreciating.
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the Group of 20's agreement to avoid competitive devaluations did not mean Japan cannot intervene against currency moves, repeating language which has flagged intervention in the past.
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Important considerations would include whether or how redenomination is imposed on depositors and other bank obligations, when a potential redenomination is signalled and implemented, exposure to asset devaluations and the extent of market stress.
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Emefiele also introduced a multiple exchange rate regime to try to mask pressure on the naira and avoid a series of devaluations, in a step that has kept liquidity tight in Africa's biggest economy.
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The comments came a day after China allowed the biggest fall in the yuan in five months, pressuring regional currencies and sending global stock markets tumbling as investors feared it would trigger competitive devaluations.
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"The global nature of the problem calls for a global response, a coordinated easing avoids the risk of competitive devaluations, and the coordinated actions during the financial crisis were considered especially helpful," Nelson added.
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The Office of the United States Trade Representative said last month that the agreement would include a currency chapter that detailed "high-standard commitments to refrain from competitive devaluations" and targeting of exchange rates.
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The pound had, in recent months, appeared to show signs of recovery after two steep devaluations in January weakened its official value to about 31.5 pounds to the dollar from 6.7 pounds in late December.
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While many of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries' currencies will avoid devaluations, however, the modest economic recovery of the last year is set to falter, with weaker growth expected in the next few quarters.
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug 20 (Reuters) - South Africa's supermarket chain Shoprite Holdings reported lower-than-expected full-year earnings on Tuesday as inventory shortages at home and currency devaluations in the rest of Africa weighed on profit.
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The G20 financial leaders will renounce competitive devaluations and warn against exchange rate volatility, but have not yet found a common stance on trade and protectionism, a draft statement of their meeting showed on Friday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday blasted currency devaluations around the world for hurting the U.S. economy and costing American jobs, and defended his calls for a tougher U.S. stance on trade.
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In Japan, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the Group of 20 agreement to avoid competitive devaluations did not mean Japan cannot intervene against currency moves, repeating language that has flagged intervention in the past.
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In the event the only official message was familiar: competitive devaluations are bad and we will refrain from them - a commitment that hasn't stopped central banks running ultra-loose policies that weaken currencies since 2008.
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Energy costs in particular have risen sharply, hit by a series of a devaluations of the rupee, and the government on Sunday announced a 6 rupee rise in petrol prices to 98.88 rupees a litre.
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Energy costs in particular have risen sharply, hit by a series of a devaluations of the rupee, and the government on Sunday announced a 6 rupee rise in petrol prices to 98.88 rupees a liter.
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Villeroy, a member of the European Central Bank's Governing Council, added that an international code of conduct for the Group of Seven (G7) advised against competitive devaluations and making unilateral declarations on currencies' exchange rates.
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However, we are definitely seeing some challenges with the fact that quantitative easing and low monetary policy doesn't seem to be working as well, competitive devaluations are not working as well as they once had.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The world's biggest economies should reaffirm their pledge to reject competitive currency devaluations and protectionism, the head of the European Central Bank said on Thursday, after rumors this commitment could be watered down.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will nonetheless still emphasize the need for the world's biggest economies to avoid competitive currency devaluations at the meeting in Chengdu, China, the official told reporters on a conference call.
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The administration has been concerned that China has been manipulating its currency to mitigate the effects of the tariffs, and he said the issue of competitive devaluations should be part of the broader trade negotiations.
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Especially burdensome have been harsh currency restrictions and repeated devaluations of the bolívar, the local currency, which have limited imports of vital machine parts and goods, while shrinking the value in dollars of company revenues.
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In a communique issued after their meeting in Washington, G20 finance ministers and central bank governors repeated their pledge to refrain from competitive currency devaluations, but offered no new initiatives to keep growth from stalling.
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The G20 economies have long agreed on three points on currency policy — to refrain from competitive devaluations, avoid targeting exchange rates for competitive purposes and that "excess volatility and disorderly movements" in currency rates were undesirable.
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"Across the board, we are seeing emerging markets register lower growth in local currency and in many cases there have also been big currency devaluations," said Murray Aitken, IMS Health senior vice president and executive director.
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We have made clear to China over many years, certainly the entire time I've been Treasury Secretary, that devaluations that are designed to gain unfair competitive advantages are unacceptable and we will push back on that.
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But currency devaluations in markets such as Angola, its biggest operation outside South Africa, and Nigeria have made it difficult to operate profitably elsewhere on the continent touted as the next bright growth spot for retailers.
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A 25.9 percent depreciation in the yuan since the start of 28, following a 4.7 percent weakening in 2015, had raised alarm among some trade rivals that China was risking a "currency war" of competitive devaluations.
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One cannot rule out further tit-for-tat retaliation between the two countries, nor can we rule out a worldwide series of competitive currency devaluations designed to give each country that devalues a competitive export advantage.
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This turnabout from the days when China soaked up much of the world's money flows has led investors to believe that China's currency — already weakened in recent months after two sets of devaluations — could fall further.
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Trade protectionism is on the rise, nationalism and unilateralism is championed by U.S. President Donald Trump - who says the rest of the world is stealing from the United States via competitive currency devaluations against the dollar.
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SHANGHAI, Jan 33 (Reuters) - China's yuan made five-month highs on Monday amid heavy demand ahead of the signing later this week of a trade deal with the United States that includes clauses against competitive devaluations.
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The oil-producing Central Asian nation has already spent more than $13 billion on bank bailouts but its banking sector remains riddled with bad loans after a property price crash and a series of currency devaluations.
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The communique repeats previous pledges from G20 finance ministers not to engage in competitive currency devaluations, but adds a mention of the risk a "potential UK exit from the European Union" would pose to the world economy.
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The dong has fallen roughly 10 percent against the U.S. dollar over the last four years, including a number of devaluations, which is one of the main reasons why international investors would prefer to have hedging options.
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China's decision to push the value of its currency lower has opened a new front of worry for global investors: a potential wave of currency devaluations among the so-called Asian tigers — South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.
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Vietnam, for example, has already devalued the dong several times to stay competitive with Chinese goods and the fear is that others may follow suit, creating a spiral of devaluations similar to the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
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The move sought to convince the international investment community that the PT could be trusted with the stewardship of the world's ninth largest economy: there would be no return to the devaluations and hyperinflation of the past.
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Trade protectionism is on the rise and nationalism and unilateralism are championed by U.S. President Donald Trump - who says the rest of the world is stealing from the United States via competitive currency devaluations against the dollar.
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The closing statement from Bari will reiterate a warning against competitive devaluations, Italian officials said, as March's G20 did, allaying fears that the new U.S. administration might weaken the G20's united front on global currency policy.
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Kazakh banks' asset quality declined after sharp drops in the price of oil, the Central Asian nation's main export, in 2009 and 2015, triggered devaluations of the local tenge currency and caused a collapse in property prices.
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Traders and economists feared the move from China to further depreciate the yuan may mean the world's second-biggest economy is even weaker than had been expected and that it could trigger another wave of competitive devaluations.
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The oil-exporting Central Asian nation has already spent billions of dollars on bailing out and propping up some of its biggest banks after a series of currency devaluations and the collapse of the local property market.
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Persistent concerns about the potential for competitive currency devaluations were discussed, and the agreement to refrain from them was in the communique but did not appear to figure as prominently as in the ministers' February meeting in Shanghai.
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EU officials say Italy can still benefit from the single currency but must reform its economy so that it can recover international competitiveness without having recourse to the currency devaluations on which it relied in the last century.
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In bilateral talks ahead of the second day of G-7 talks in Sendai, Japan, on Saturday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso that it was important to refrain from competitive currency devaluations.
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After China witnessed a fall in the yuan, global shares tumbled for a sixth session on Thursday, oil prices fell to near 12-year lows, and Shanghai shares dived 7 percent, igniting fears of competitive devaluations across Asia.
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Traders and economists feared the move from China to further depreciate the yuan may mean the world's second-biggest economy is even weaker than had been expected and could trigger another wave of competitive devaluations in the region.
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The G20 finance leaders agreed in Shanghai in February that countries should refrain from competitive currency devaluations, which some market players interpreted as a warning against Japan for intervening in the currency market to stem sharp yen rises.
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The authorities have resisted pressures for the currency to weaken further since April 2016 after previous devaluations and the tight fiscal stance has prevailed, but foreign currency is in short supply, inflation is high and growth prospects subdued.
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The specter of currency devaluations took center stage at a meeting of G20 policy makers in Shanghai this month, especially after China's August move stoked uncertainty over its currency policy and after Japan's surprise shift to negative rates.
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While China's slowing economy and its currency devaluations are at the center of the recent global financial market turmoil, the relative calm in the euro zone will do little to mask its currently lackluster, although not awful, fortunes.
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Its shops outside of South Africa however continued to be hurt by currency devaluations and volatility in markets like Angola, Zambia and Nigeria, and as a result its non-South African business reported a 3.1% decline in sales.
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HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - China and the United States on Sunday committed anew to refrain from competitive currency devaluations, and China said it would continue an orderly transition to a market-oriented exchange rate for the yuan CNY=CFXS.
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China has guided the yuan lower since a surprise devaluation of the currency last summer, rattling traders who fear it could eventually set off a round of competitive devaluations which will put further pressure on other emerging economies.
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CHENGDU, China (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said commitments by G20 members to refrain from competitive currency devaluations have helped sustain economic confidence, according to a statement summarizing discussions between Lew and Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso.
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But many investors saw the rate cut as smacking of desperation and the latest sign that global central bankers are moving toward a round of competitive devaluations — also known as currency wars — as a way to stimulate their economies.
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Overcapacity in the global steel industry, a sore point for China as the world's largest producer of the metal, barriers to foreign investment and the risk of currency devaluations to protect export markets will also figure in the discussions.
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BADEN BADEN, Germany (Reuters) - The world's financial leaders will renounce competitive devaluations and warn against exchange rate volatility, a document showed on Friday, but are likely to struggle to find common ground on trade and financing against climate change.
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Because of this flexibility, you are insulated from miles and points devaluations — if one program updates its award chart in away that decreases the value of its miles, you still have many other options for using your Ultimate Rewards.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The world's top central banks have all but given up hope of returning to conventional monetary policy soon with many touting rate cuts, raising the risk of competitive currency devaluations and doubts they can meet their mandates.
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"When you talk about currency manipulation, when you talk about devaluations," the Chinese "are world champions," Mr. Trump told The Financial Times, ahead of the state visit of the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, to the United States last week.
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"There's no question about the fact that a lot of countries, over the years, have tried to pursue mercantilist policies, including unilateral currency devaluations, to promote their exports to the United States while cutting off our exports to them," Smith said.
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"We need to instil market confidence and ensure there are no competitive devaluations but rather let the market determine exchange rates," Yi told a news briefing, adding this would be the first G20 to discuss foreign exchange markets in such detail.
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The yuan has fallen 1.5 percent since the start of 2016 to its lowest against the dollar in over four years, a relatively large fall that has raised alarm among some rivals that China was risking a bout of competitive devaluations.
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In the run-up to the annual spring meetings of the IMF and the World Bank in Washington, D.C. this week, the IMF said the global economy was vulnerable to shocks such as sharp currency devaluations and worsening geopolitical conflicts.
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Despite such doubts, looser monetary policy might be the only show in town to cool the yen, after Washington last week emphasized G20 commitments to avoid currency devaluations, apparently brushing off Tokyo's view that the yen's rise was "one-sided".
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In a joint communique issued at the end of the two-day conference of G20 central bankers and finance ministers in Shanghai, participants repeated previous pledges not to engage in competitive currency devaluations and pledged to "consult closely" on exchange markets.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - From cutting power subsidies to forcing currency devaluations that stoke inflation, the hard choices facing Pakistan as it seeks a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) pose a major headache for populist new Prime Minister Imran Khan.
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A string of yuan devaluations in China has created a negative feedback loop, undermined currency markets and caused investors to question the ability of Chinese leaders to manage their economy, said David Lebovitz, global market strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management.
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After surprising markets with a sharp yuan devaluation in August, and setting off fears of competitive devaluations by other countries, China repeatedly reassured last week's G-20 meeting that there would be no further big moves lower for the yuan.
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The Sudanese pound hit a record low of about 40 pounds to the dollar earlier this year on the black market, but the devaluations and a ban on deposits of dollars obtained from the black market have reversed this trend.
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Taken to the extreme, competitive currency devaluations may give way to protectionist trade policies, which would be negative for global growth; • Third, negative interest rates may be symptomatic of central banks reaching the limits of what monetary policy can do.
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Japanese officials' efforts to talk the yen down have failed to turn the tide as investors are betting that Tokyo won't be able to intervene due to a G-20 agreement in Shanghai in February warning against competitive currency devaluations.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Friday it was important for Group of Seven major economies to reinforce pledges to refrain from competitive currency devaluations at their meeting next week, adding that also applied to the United States.
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"The most recent escalation in the trade dispute between the U.S. and China, the risk of competitive devaluations and the increased likelihood of a no-deal Brexit place additional pressure on the already weak economic growth," Wambach said in a statement.
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This paper published on Vox explains that: By disentangling the impact of exchange rate changes on trade results, we have shown that the underlying assumption of the 'currency wars' discussion – that devaluations bring about substantial export gains – may be severely flawed.
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Tokyo also skirted pressure, at least for now, to agree to avoid currency "devaluations" - a demand of U.S. lawmakers that would have tied Japan's ability to intervene in currency markets should the yen spike and threaten the country's export-reliant economy.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will be "pushing hard" to advance U.S. interests in his debut meeting with Group of 20 counterparts this week, including reaffirming commitments to avoid competitive currency devaluations, a senior Treasury official said on Monday.
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Buhari argues that this is about ending speculation, as well as a decades-long cycle of devaluations that has hit ordinary Nigerians in the form of high inflation and discouraged the investment needed to build a serious domestic factory sector.
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If this is not enough to raise concerns about the return of 1930s-style economic policies … from protectionism to competitive currency devaluations to the U.S. finding other targets in an on-going trade war, there are some other salient issues currently at play.
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On Tuesday evening, Citigroup said the overhang of a sluggish economy, trade war threats and potential currency devaluations was enough to make its analysts lower earnings estimates for the S&P 22.4 for 24 and 21.8 by a little more than 2%.
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Lew said China had largely been keeping its G20 commitments to avoid competitive currency devaluations, adding that its action in recent months to spend reserves to support the yuan, also known as the renminbi or RMB, have been consistent with those commitments.
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Although the peso has seen a steep decline in the four years of Peña's administration, from 85033 per dollar in December 2012 to 18 per dollar on Monday, the currency's decline has not triggered the rise in inflation seen in previous devaluations.
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"We reaffirm our fiscal and monetary policies have been and will remain oriented towards meeting our respective domestic policy objectives, using domestic instruments and we will not target exchange rates for competitive purposes," it said, underlining the importance of refraining from competitive devaluations.
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Aso said he also agreed with Lew, and gained understanding from G-20 counterparts, that a G-20 agreement to avoid competitive currency devaluations would not constrain monetary policy steps, including the adoption of negative interest rates, needed to achieve domestic economic objectives.
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Concerns about China's opaque currency policy were one of the factors behind a global financial market rout at the start of the year when it deliberately weakened the yuan, leading investors to flee emerging markets fearing similar competitive devaluations by other central banks.
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Also hurting the mood was U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's comments to the Financial Times warning China not to engage in competitive devaluations of the yuan as the two countries spar over their economic relations and engage in an escalating trade war.
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WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Friday it was important for Group of Seven major economies to reinforce their pledges to refrain from competitive currency devaluations next week, adding that applied to the United States as well.
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Jeffrey Schott, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said that KORUS provisions could be crafted for foreign exchange transparency and interventions that could help enforce South Korea's G20 and International Monetary Fund pledges to avoid competitive currency devaluations.
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That agreement, signed July 22, was one of the first global monetary policy and currency agreements - re-establishing a gold standard for exchange rates, backing away from competitive devaluations and setting up the International Monetary Fund to bridge balance of payments gaps.
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Their agreement, signed July 2.33, was one of the first global monetary policy and currency agreements - re-establishing a gold standard for exchange rates, backing away from competitive devaluations and setting up the International Monetary Fund to bridge balance of payments gaps.
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Their agreement, signed July 22, was one of the first global monetary policy and currency agreements - re-establishing a gold standard for exchange rates, backing away from competitive devaluations and setting up the International Monetary Fund to bridge balance of payments gaps.
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Mr. Calvey's advocacy for investment continued despite two decades of government takeovers of companies, ruble devaluations and politically hued arrests, including that of Sergei L. Magnitsky, who died in pretrial detention and had been working as a lawyer for another prominent investor.
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During the 19993s Italy, too, toyed with letting economic and monetary union go ahead without it, partly because its public debt was far above the Maastricht ceiling of 60% of GDP, but also because its post-war economic success had been built on frequent devaluations.
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The G-20 countries agreed at a meeting in Shanghai in February that they would avoid competitive currency devaluations, but Japanese policymakers have argued that that agreement should not prevent intervention to stop the "rapid, one-sided" moves it had observed in the yen.
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The pound sank as low as $1.2412 in the half-hour after the consumer data only to roar back past $1.2575 when U.S. President Donald Trump and his top trade adviser sent the dollar tumbling with comments about other countries' devaluations of their currencies.
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With a record $13.7 trillion in overseas sovereign debt carrying negative interest rates, there is scant room for the world to do more to stimulate a global economy further weakened by an intensifying trade war … save for further, beggar-thy-neighbor, competitive, currency devaluations.
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The effects of institutionalized fraud, Nye warned, would lead to drastic devaluations of securities derived from mortgages, widespread failures of major banks and a mass sell-off in the stock market, not to mention millions of foreclosures, job losses, vacant homes, and emotional distress.
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The company, better known as Kenya Re, said the expected drop is mainly due to high claims reserves, forex losses due to currency devaluations in some of its markets, unexpected reduction in income from an associate and impairment of an asset held for sale.
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China had been criticized for years for keeping its yuan artificially low against the dollar, but since devaluations last August and in January roiled markets, the PBOC has spent hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign exchange reserves to prop up the yuan's value.
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The agreement, cobbled together quickly with only a few rounds of negotiations under Trump's threat of withdrawal, will include a side-letter that requires South Korea to provide increased transparency of its foreign exchange interventions, with commitments to avoid won devaluations for competitive purposes.
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CURRENCY The currency agreement contains pledges by China to refrain from competitive currency devaluations and to not target its exchange rate for a trade advantage -- language that China has accepted for years as part of its commitments to the Group of 20 major economies.
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Due to a national debt crisis and subsequent peso devaluations, there were no jobs in Mexico, so in 210 my father left his wife and children behind and became part of the largest wave of migration from Mexico ever, a wave that has only recently ended.
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"There are questions if there will be any further devaluations, how much interest rates will be hiked, what taxation measures are expected of Pakistan, and will there be any further increase in electricity or gas prices?" said Saad Hashemy, Chief Economist for Pakistani brokerage house Topline Securities.
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In recent months it has attempted to restore dollar flows to the official banking system, with two steep devaluations since January, first to 18 pounds per dollar from 6.7 and then to 31.5 last month, along with a ban on dollar deposits from the black market.
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The G20, which spans major industrialized economies such as the United States and Japan to the emerging giants of China and Brazil and smaller economies such as Indonesia and Turkey, reiterated in the communique a commitment to refrain from targeting exchange rates for competitive purposes, including through devaluations.
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The fiscal policy reforms of the last few years — subsidy and spending cuts and the introduction of new taxes — will continue but at a more subdued rate than when first implemented, preventing potential currency devaluations and protecting dollar pegs, the consultancy said in a research note published Monday.
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Speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Brodjonegoro said that, while Indonesia's economy should be able to sustain 4503-5.3 percent growth in 2016, slowing world growth was a worry, more so than the prospect of competitive tit-for-tat devaluations by exporting nations.
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The Group of 20 powers meeting in the German spa town of Baden-Baden reiterated their long-standing warnings against competitive devaluations and disorderly FX markets, allaying fears that the new U.S. administration might have opened up a chink in the G20's united front on global currency policy.
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The G-20, which spans major industrialized economies such as the United States and Japan to the emerging giants of China and Brazil and smaller economies such as Indonesia and Turkey, reiterated in the communique a commitment to refrain from targeting exchange rates for competitive purposes, including through devaluations.
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While the local real estate/rental markets remain on fire, given an increasingly restrained funding environment, devaluations for once-hot startups, notable recent layoffs at high-profile tech companies and a challenging IPO market, many observers portend an ominous environment ripe for a bust similar to the early 2000s.
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That is the first time the PBOC has firmed the midpoint against the dollaar in 9 trading days, after it allowed the biggest fall in the yuan in five months on Thursday, pressuring regional currencies and sending global stock markets tumbling as investors feared it would trigger competitive devaluations.
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The People's Bank of China also raised its guidance rate for the yuan for the first time in nine trading days, having allowed the currency's biggest fall in five months on Thursday, sending shivers through regional currencies and global stock markets as investors feared it would trigger competitive devaluations.
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Last week US President Donald Trump repeated his threat to slap tariffs on US$267bn of additional Chinese imports if China retaliated for recent US moves in the escalating trade war and the US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin warned China not to engage in competitive devaluations of the renminbi.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japan will refrain from competitive currency devaluations but retains the right to act against short-term yen swings, the country's policymakers said on Friday, signaling their readiness to step into the market to counter any abrupt spike in the currency that threatens a fragile economic recovery.
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Germany became the world's export champion even though the revered Deutsche mark kept soaring from 21.6 to 280 per dollar between 1960 and 1998 (the euro was launched on January 1, 1999), while the sloppy cost and product management in other European countries was causing unending devaluations and financial crises.
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"In the face of further currency devaluations and to protect the value of the trading debt owed to it, Distell accepted payment in local currency and invested the proceeds with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in U.S. dollar denominated savings bonds yielding 7% and maturing at the end of 2020," it said.
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The Group of 20 powers meeting in the German spa town of Baden-Baden reiterated their long-standing warnings against competitive devaluations and disorderly foreign exchange (FX) markets, allaying fears that the new U.S. administration might have opened up a chink in the G-20's united front on global currency policy.
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However, AB's ability to receive and utilise any potential support could be restricted by transfer and convertibility restrictions, as reflected in Azerbaijan's Country Ceiling of 'BB+' The downgrade of AB's VR to 'b+' from 'bb-' reflects significant deterioration in the bank's asset quality and performance following the devaluations of the Azerbaijan manat in 2015.
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Old-timers used to urge younger Greeks to buy property to avoid losing savings as they did in frequent currency devaluations — or in the monster inflation during the Axis occupation in World War II. Parents felt duty-bound to help their children acquire homes or leave them property as the only possible hedge against hardship.
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The fear, of course, is that a dissolution of the EU as a single, unified economic entity, with its own currency, could collapse, leading to the reintroduction of single-nation currencies; the revival of national central banks; competitive currency devaluations across the Continent; and, quite possibly, the re-awakening of ancient enmities that dominated the European political landscape for decades, if not centuries.
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"After what happened in the last two years in terms of devaluations and some real troubles in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and the surrounding countries, they (emerging markets) have stabilized on lower levels and there is a better growth prospect into next year and they will digest (a Fed hike)," Zurich-based Wittmann, a veteran of UBS and Julius Bar, told CNBC.
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"There are dark clouds coming up from the East ... Because serious doubts are justified that China is not only experiencing a growth slowdown, but possibly a really hard landing," Sentix said in a statement China rocked the world markets at the start of 2016 when it allowed the biggest fall in the yuan in five months, pressuring regional currencies and sending stocks around the globe tumbling as investors feared it would trigger competitive devaluations.
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If the U.S. leaves its markets open to unfairly cheap foreign products while its own goods are stymied abroad, then the job-killing concerns about free trade are all the more pressing, "Trade deals are absolutely killing our country — the devaluations of their currencies by China and Japan and many, many other countries, and we don't do it because we don't play the game," GOP front-runner Donald Trump said at a Thursday night debate, reiterating his call to employ threats of retaliatory tariffs.
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AS OF TODAY, THE DEVALUATIONS ARE OVER EUR 200,000 * AS A PRECAUTION WE REDUCE THE PLANNED RESULT FROM THE ORIGINAL EUR 100 THOUSAND TO A BALANCED RESULT * FOR 2020 WE SEESALES OF EUR 6-7 MILLION AND WITH A BALANCED ANNUAL RESULT BEFORE ANY ADDITION TO THE "FUND FOR GENERAL BANKING RISKS" * LIQUIDITY RISKS CANNOT BE IDENTIFIED DUE TO THE HIGH LEVEL OF EQUITY FINANCING FOR THE 2020 FINANCIAL YEAR * OUR BUSINESS OPERATIONS THEMSELVES CONTINUE TO OPERATE Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: (Gdansk Newsroom)
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