Each of our managers has flexibility in credit, currency, and curve long and short.
The products traded on its exchanges serve the global markets for agricultural, credit, currency, emissions, energy and equity indices.
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The threat now is that the malaise in the credit and currency markets will worsen and be transmitted from the new world to the old.
So long as credit exists, in whatever form and based on whatever currency, credit fraud will exist.
This month China freed interest rates on large foreign-currency loans, and the government recently announced that it would liberalise local-currency credit within three years.
The Y Combinator-backed Coinbase was started nine months ago by Brian Armstrong, a then anti-fraud engineer at AirBnB who had gotten a taste of how much money the company was losing in transaction fees thanks to credit cards and currency conversions.
Like swaps on interest rates and foreign currency, credit swaps outstanding dwarf the underlying bonds in circulation.
However, it is the familiar such as a credit card or native currency that often incurs the most financial damage for unsuspecting travelers.
For instance, it has a history of attracting buyers in times of uncertainties in currency and credit markets, acting as a so-called safe haven.
In early 2011, shortly after the Carnaval celebrations in March, Mantega raised taxes on other currency and credit transactions as the real bulked up yet again to BRL1.65.
After the Olympics came a vast transformation to the current Michelin star-studded gastronomic paradise, likewise a renaissance for office towers, shinkansen fast trains, freeways and, later, mass foreign tourism with a strong currency and credit cards.
What Southeast Asian nations and others that may get swept up in the panic must recognize is this: A temporary tightening of credit to defend a currency is infinitely less costly than the price paid for devaluation.
If Bitcoin replaced credit cards, it would not actually be a currency bit just another form of credit.
Two others, Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers, are leaving their model-bond currency allocation untouched Credit Suisse is as much in love with the dollar as ever.
The global economy for the past five years has been driven by credit, with cash as currency pushed to the sidelines.
These things are well worth the price for the short- and long-term power of tax-rate reduction, sound currency and unclogged credit arteries.
Panamanians accept American currency, and credit and debit cards are used widely.
Another explanation for any difference between how much items cost and what actually appears on a credit card statement is Dynamic Currency Conversion.
Sun and co-authors Lu Zheng of UC Irvine and Ashley Wang of the Federal Reserve studied the returns of some 5, 000 hedge funds from 1994 to 2011, adjusting for the funds' stock and bond exposure, currency bets, credit spreads and other factors that could account for performance.
In these four periods of rising rates, managers had the acumen to navigate troubled waters by various techniques of managing bond types, sector allocation, duration, maturity, credit quality, country, and currency.
Nor was there much dissent when Argentina introduced the currency board in 1991, or when it pointed to the dramatic falls in inflation for which the hard-currency peg got the credit.
As expected, Brazil imposed a 6% financial transactions (IOF) tax on offshore loans as part of a series of planned measure to curb inflation by limiting credit, and keep the local currency in check.
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They happen whether they are due to our elected leaders failing to reach an agreement regarding the Fiscal Cliff or the credit markets freezing up or a currency crisis or a large hedge fund imploding.
Quite apart from the risk that some crisis in a currency or stock or credit swap market could cause a meltdown on Wall Street, there is the risk that the public could turn against securities firms, especially those that so visibly wear multiple hats.
While no effort was made to reach a group consensus, it was clear that the majority of panelists and participants appreciate the growing interaction of international developments and global currency, equities and credit markets -- a reality that obliges U.S. business and government leaders to monitor such political, national security and economic developments around the world with ever greater care.
Credit is expensive, and an overvalued currency makes imported food cheaper than home-grown varieties.
The U.K. crashed its currency in 2008 when the credit crunch kicked off.
On the Smart wireless system in the Philippines the recipient can use the credit to buy things or get folding currency.
If that judgment is right, the squalls stirred up by the credit crises have moved at least one currency the world's reserve money closer to fair value.
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