And until 2006, foreigners are barred from conducting local-currency business with Chinese citizens.
At that rate, the credit card giant would eclipse the U.S. Federal Reserve as the world's premier toll-taker in the currency business.
Each company now competes hard to own the insight metrics around cross-media ad optimization, but they face skilled competitors and little chance of earning the same margins as produced by their currency business.
Both Nielsen and Arbitron have a currency on which the ad-supported television and radio industries still rely and that provides them with differentiated margins, but neither core currency business is growing, since they are fully penetrated.
"The only reason we sell is to fuel our ability to buy, " says David's son Helly, 29, who runs a gallery in the posh Carlyle Hotel on Madison Avenue. (Helly's cousin, also named Helly Nahmad after their grandfather Hillel in the Sephardic Jewish tradition, runs a gallery in London.) And while there is a cost to holding that inventory, the family's currency business helps support their art strategy.
He unwittingly received the stolen currency in a business deal, he maintains.
If you believe as I do, that reciprocal relationships are the new business currency, then social engagement is how you nurture those affairs.
Called Business Pro, it consists of 16 apps made by a range of companies, including an expense tracker, currency calculator, business card reader, task manager and GPS navigation app.
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Prestige and acclaim are hard currency in the film business, in many ways more valuable than money.
The government's hope must be that this view gains currency, before another business-deterring law hits the statute books.
Airport congestion has multiplied the value of these rights, so that they have become currency in the aviation business.
If stories are the currency of Nike's business, Pistorius is the equivalent of a blank check.
Business reputations have currency and as such, firms must project a positive image.
But it is also reasonable to hope that phone money weakens the local monopolies that central banks enjoy in the business of issuing currency.
Ben van Doesburgh, chief executive of De Kuyper Royal Distillers, a 316-year-old Dutch gin and spirits maker in Schiedam, acknowledges the common currency's benefits for business.
True, the euro will lead to a big growth in cross-border business, as currency risk disappears and investors begin to assess companies according to their industrial sector, not their domicile.
Foreign banks will be allowed to do business in the Chinese currency with Chinese households.
The business typically issues local currency and U.S. dollar denominated cards with both parties sharing risk and profit and loss responsibilities.
The company also had more U.S. subscribers for the HBO premium channels and saw growth internationally across the TV business, despite unfavorable currency-exchange rates.
As a result, domestic manufacturers whose prices would be much more competitive if China allowed the market to set the value of its currency go out of business.
The currency collapse in Iran means that Iranian business can't afford to place their normal orders from Turkey.
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When adjusting for the impact of refranchising its business in China and foreign currency exchange rates, the company said revenue rose 4.4 percent.
The business cycles of countries sharing a currency should be more or less in sync.
ICAP-owned trading platform EBS, which handles flows from the biggest banks in the business, said its daily average currency trading volumes in January rebounded 22% from a year earlier and 54% from December.
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The won was effectively "like toilet paper" he said and because all business was done using dollars the currency was used by people to barter even at the lowest levels of North Korean society.
Last month, the governor of the Banque de France told the Financial Times the City of London should be deposed as the euro's main financial center so the single currency club can "control" most financial business in the eurozone.
That is why hedging in effect insuring against the risk of unexpected currency movements has become such a big business.
As business owners and leaders, our greatest currency is our story.
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Fans of the stock assert that the shortfall largely reflect factors not related to core operations, including currency issues and weakness in the Motorola Mobility handset business.
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