The first annual survey published in 2009 coincided with possibly even greater economic global turbulence linked to the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers.

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This is one reason we are experiencing global currency turbulence and why commodity prices are so low.

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President Chavez has explained the move as an act of sovereignty that will protect Venezuela's reserves from global economic turbulence.

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One of its targets is to guarantee emergency funding for the Brics nations and their trading partners at the time of global economic turbulence.

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Mr. Roseman worried the trade might get bigger and even endanger MF Global if the financial turbulence in Europe got too rough.

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The rise came to a halt in 2008 when the Chinese authorities sought to cushion exporters from the turbulence of global recession but resumed in 2010 just weeks before the House passed a bill (see chart).

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Our fiscal policy, like our monetary policy, is designed to support stability in these uncertain economic times generated by the turbulence in world financial markets and global commodity price inflation.

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Europe's Vstoxx stock market turbulence gauge and the CVix index, which reflects the expected choppiness of global currencies, are both near the lowest since mid-2007.

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" From the region's financial turbulence he drew one lesson: "Countries cannot compete for the blessings of global capital markets and refuse their disciplines.

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