Blankfein's bond-currency-commodity operation soon was providing more than half of Goldman's booming trading revenue.
The best, most immediate measure of the true value of the dollar--or any currency--is gold.
Liberty Reserve - a Costa Rican-based digital currency service - has been shut down after the reported arrest of its founder.
Mr. Hoguet recommends holding about 2% of an overall bond allocation in emerging-market hard-currency bonds, and about 8% in emerging-market local-currency bonds.
Excluding the effect of translating foreign-currency-denominated sales into U.S. dollars, worldwide net sales increased 24 percent and comparable store sales rose 22 percent.
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Bay Bucks are a local currency--one of a handful circulating in the U.S., including Burlington Bread, Ithaca Hours and, soon, BerkShares in Massachusetts.
On a constant-exchange-rate basis excluding the effect of translating foreign-currency-denominated sales into U.S. dollars, worldwide net sales rose 6 percent and same store sales increased 4 percent.
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The so-called currency wars-better defined as competitive devaluation-have gotten a lot of press lately, particularly by those who are pessimistic about the economy and the stock market.
The government has now backed away from the hard-currency-into-roubles proposal.
Instead of bills and coins, we will spend electronic currency -- call it e-money -- that we zap to merchants from our PCs or carry with us on smart cards.
Kinsella collects revenues in U.S. dollars but pays expenses in the local currency--a difficult equation when the dollar drops 5% against the Philippines peso, as it has in the last year.
The Romans weren't used to seeing the images of their rulers on currency--only kings did that, and they thought it was further proof that Caesar was about to make himself king.
And the problem with that is it dilutes the currency -- the value of marriage -- such that I think you're going to have more family breakdown and problems resulting from that.
On a constant-exchange-rate basis, which excludes the effect of translating foreign-currency-denominated sales into U.S. dollars, worldwide net sales and comparable store sales increased 16 percent and 15 percent, respectively, the New York-based luxury jewelry retailer said.
This kind of equipment-for-oil compensation deal -- predicated on necessarily vague and speculative terms to spare Moscow the problem of immediate, hard currency payments -- is altogether too easily translated into "debt forgiveness" in the future.
However, the correlation between flows into hard-currency bond funds and both local-currency bond funds and equity funds has decreased significantly lately, while the correlation between EM equity fund flows and EM local-currency bond fund flows has trended higher.
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On a constant-exchange-rate basis that excludes the effect of translating foreign-currency-denominated sales into U.S. dollars, worldwide net sales rose 5 percent, for the period ended Jan. 31, due to growth in all regions and comparable store sales equaled the prior year.
And not touching Fannie and Freddie, two of the biggest problems we have, seems to me to be a rather remarkable oversight or--as they say now in this day and age, this relatively new expression that's gained great currency--kicking the can down the road.
Rodolfo Montes de Oca runs a multi-million dollar toy manufacturing business, providing jobs - and prized foreign currency - outside Buenos Aires.
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The carmaker also said that while car sales had risen 8.2% to 292, 207 vehicles - a record for first-quarter sales - currency problems and the phasing out of the old 3-series had hit profits.
For the coming year, it guided earnings and sales growth to the "mid-to-high-single-digits" on a constant-currency basis.
Tech's Ben Schachter, who has a "buy" rating on eBay, expects the company's marketplace revenue to grow 16.6% year-over-year (9% on a currency-neutral basis).
So we have stock long-short, commodity long-short, managed futures, currency long-short, real estate hedge, and a global bond hedge.
Currency-support mechanisms - or funds - could complement the IMF the way regional development banks complement the work of the World Bank.
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But I'm starting to wonder whether the ECB - and the single currency - might be better off if it were more beholden to politicians, with a clear chain of accountability from democratically elected governments.
However, he also held no punches when discussing government-issued Treasuries and other currency-denominated instruments.
Argentina's inflexible currency-board scheme not only pegs the peso at par to the dollar but limits the money supply to the level of hard-currency reserves, in effect turning monetary policy over to the United States' Federal Reserve.
Regardless of the amount of difficulty involved, the big four emerging markets plus South Africa said earlier this week they were considering setting up a foreign-exchange reserve pool and a currency-swap arrangement in an effort to avoid any credit crisis stemming from the advanced economies.
Dutch painters of the era maintained dizzyingly exalted standards of excellence across a range of genres, working for a market in which history paintings functioned as large-denomination currency and still-lifes were useful small change.
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer powered currency consisting of anonymous, heavily-encrypted codes which only a specific user can unlock.
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