The real always falls against the dollar when measures to tax or control dollar flows into Brazil are expected.
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But his logic suggests that the Fed should continue using interest rates as its operating lever to control the dollar, says Paul Hoffmeister, an economist at independent research firm Bretton Woods Research.
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If an investor were to give us a dollar to invest, the positions that he would control would be possibly in excess of the dollar that he gave us, even though that 75 cents is part in investment grade securities.
's multibillion-dollar bid to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC.
But more recently, as the movement disintegrated, the Cambodian military has assumed control of the multimillion-dollar business.
Their lawsuit is a legitimate threat against a mighty oil company that mistakenly bought a multi-billion dollar liability because company executives believed they could control the end result.
It is built on small companies that want to test and refine things, in small dollar increments, with a greater degree of control than ever before possible (thanks to Google, frankly, because they invented or at least perfected the micro-buy known as pay-per-click).
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But now, four years after Zimbabwe tied its currency to the dollar and a power-sharing coalition took control, stabilizing the economy and the government, Christensen and many others like him are starting to work again in the landscape they know best and love most.
He is, though, likely to hear from his hosts about the market's control over the price of the dollar, to which oil producers in the region peg their currencies, and whose 30% trade-weighted decline in the past five years is putting inflationary pressure on domestic economies.
Swaps trading is a huge enterprise for the big U.S. banks, who control 97% of the trillions-dollar swaps market.
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Whether Torres, a mother of twins, will want to maintain control in five years is the billion-dollar question.
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Interest rate fluctuation has worked to make money artificially cheap in certain periods since the Fed inherited total control of monetary policy in 1971 after the dollar was delinked from gold.
Giving each state a fixed dollar amount would create strong incentives to carefully weigh spending priorities both across various state programs and within Medicaid, along with far stronger incentives to control costs (since states will pocket every dollar of savings).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will lead the multi-million dollar project to build a computerised network that will enable experts to track medical data on residents of eight major US cities.
If investors started to suspect the country's spending is truly out of control, the cost of borrowing would skyrocket, the dollar would deteriorate and the good times might not come back.
Fighting over control of trusts and estates is not limited to billion-dollar fortunes.
The dollar index has seen choppy trading recently as bulls and bears struggle for control, with neither gaining much ground.
The company was forced to sell off 90% of the production, ceding control to BP Amoco, in order to finance a multibillion-dollar project that included pipelines to carry the oil 500 miles from the Andes to Colombia's coast.
It was forced to sell off 90% of the production, ceding control to BP Amoco, in order to finance a multibillion-dollar project that included pipelines to carry the oil 800 kilometers from the Andes to the coast of Colombia.
Micronesia has been independent of U.S. control since 1986, but it still uses the U.S. dollar.
As you know, all managers would rather have complete control over client commissions for a variety of reasons including best execution concerns and soft dollar opportunities.
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More formidable still is Intel's ability to pair multibillion-dollar factories with unmatched manufacturing know-how, both of which have kept the company in control of the processor market for decades.
Around two-thirds of the apartments enjoy below-market rents protected by New York's notorious rent-control laws, and many tenants fear that a new, more commercially minded owner who has paid top dollar for the properties will make their lives less comfortable.
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