People in the ancient West and in Asia knew the value of using tokens for calculation.
"(Financial services firms) are getting people who understand the local markets, " adds Lim of Value Search Asia.
While Apple's brand still scores more highly overall, Samsung's is more consistently appreciated across the world, particularly in East Asia, says Added Value.
Tens of millions of homeowners and property owners in the U.S., Europe, the Gulf region and Asia have seen the value of their assets decrease sharply.
Think, for example, of the success that the likes of Merrill Lynch have had of late in mergers and acquisitions in Europe or Asia, and the value of good brand-awareness becomes apparent.
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Of course, if you average out stock picks within rote selections of broad stock categories such as health care or technology, Asia or Europe, growth or value, you will find that the major effect on your performance comes from timing the market.
Southeast Asia's largest developer by market value, fell as much as 7.2% in heavy trading volume before ending down 4.1% at 3.73 Singapore dollars.
Japan may ultimately get its act together to become a high-value brand producer and player in Asia's new consumerism.
Affluent urban Chinese who have travelled to other parts of Asia now visit North Korea for its rarity value, and for a taste of what they themselves have escaped from.
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In Malaysia, the government's economic advisory body, the National Economic Aid Council, said Calpers was a relatively new investor in the region, and might not have complete insight into the value of emerging markets in East Asia.
However, the number has soared as buyers in Asia now pay the U.S. street value of cocaine for rhino horn.
The largest value increases have been clocked in China and Asia, thanks to the emergence of new wealthy classes and rising commodity prices.
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In time, new acquisitions in Asia, bought at bargain prices as the crisis drives down the value even of sound companies, will bring in new income streams.
Each is allowing important overflight rights of considerable value to the war against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Central Asia.
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Thanks to the economic slump, as well as changing tastes, in East Asia, where the bulk of the more expensive categories was sold, their value fell by a quarter.
David Pritchard, an American academic and consultant who has studied both companies, says that Airbus must now send more basic work to cheap-labour countries in Asia with currencies tied to the dollar, keeping only high-added-value stuff and final assembly in Europe.
The value of memberships in Japan crashed in the 1990s and has slumped elsewhere in Asia over the past decade as golf slowly lost some of its exclusive cachet.
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But Asia has to diversify, because too many countries make the same things and China makes low value-added products cheaper.
Investors may believe the U.S. is overpriced, but value investors with a long term horizon are clearly buying the emerging markets, especially Asia.
In a sign of India's precarious position, its currency has lost more than 15% of its value against the dollar since August, making it the worst-performing currency in Asia.
The world's largest exchange operator by market value outbid rivals last year to buy the London Metal Exchange, and plans to offer Asia-focused products and explore partnerships with China's own fast-growing trading platforms as soon as next year.
In addition, Asia paid close attention to the Mexican crisis of 1994-95, when the peso lost half its value in a matter of weeks.
Asia's vast holdings of dollar reserves also expose the region to vast losses whenever the dollar falls in value.
EU, if not yet as a member, include its value as a diplomatic and commercial bridgehead into the energy-rich, newly independent countries of Central Asia, and as a cultural bridgehead into Islam.
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But it is one of the strongest markets in Southeast Asia despite the political outlook because the rupiah has appreciated, corporates are attempting to restructure and there is good value in some domestic plays.
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