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The index is proportionally weighted based on foreign-exchange trading volume data from the Bank for International Settlements' triennial central-bank survey on global foreign-exchange market activity.
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Asia accounts for about a quarter of global GDP at market exchange rates, and is expected to grow to nearly 30 percent by 2015.
WHITEHOUSE: The White House
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In 2009, 40% of global investment (at market exchange rates) took place in Asia, as much as in America and Europe combined.
ECONOMIST: The balance of economic power
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This is because the biggest impediment to a global capital market is not volatile exchange rates, nor timid investors, nor even the present Asian crisis.
ECONOMIST: A hill of beans
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Founded in 1981, Logitech International is a Swiss public company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (LOGN) and on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (LOGI).
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Now take a look at the chart, which plots a foreign exchange rate along with a price index for the global stock market.
FORBES: Put Some Money in Japan
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The problem, however, is that policymakers may not want to make their domestic monetary policies subject to formal exchange-rate targets for the sake of global currency-market stability.
ECONOMIST: Why non-Europeans should care about EMU
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Van Eck Global, which runs the Market Vectors Brazil Small Cap (BRF) exchange traded fund is underweight the country.
FORBES: Brazil Economy, Get Ready For The Correction
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The economy is improving, but Jessica Hoversen, a foreign exchange and fixed-income futures analyst at MF Global, warns that the currency market may have already overextended itself in the short term, while long-term trends endanger the U.S. dollar.
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US-based Van Eck Global in New York likes Russia so much it launched its second pure-play exchange traded fund for that market.
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