That high exchange rate has made it hard for Brazilian companies not involved in the booming commodity sector to compete.
In the early 1980s, a high exchange rate, the product of tight fiscal policy and tight money, was the agent of recession and unemployment.
Outside of the big cities in rural Shropshire, the county's chamber of commerce is also hoping that tourism will rise, not least from UK holidaymakers put off by the high exchange rate with the Euro.
But most seem to accept that Brazil will need to build a prosperous future the hard way: cutting current spending to invest more in public infrastructure (a lot more), and, finally getting to grips with some regulation and red tape that probably does more to hurt Brazil's competitiveness than the high exchange rate.
Consider a high yield exchange-traded fund like the Barclays High Yield Bond SPDRS ETF (NYSE: JNK).
Finally, we recognized the importance of continued high-level exchange and consultations between our two countries.
We exchange high fives whenever we level-up from one world to the next.
Even the high-flying exchange stocks were off: NYSE Group fell 5% and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, now called CME Group, fell 3%.
Though India's banks face bad debts, its cloistered financial system, high foreign-exchange reserves and capable central bank mean it is not about to keel over.
That would make servicing foreign-currency debts less crippling and might even allow domestic interest rates, which have been kept high to stabilise exchange rates, to drop a bit.
So far this year investors have poured billions into high dividend strategy exchange-traded funds yet almost all the big dividend ETFs have underperformed the market, even after including reinvested dividends.
This means that there will continue to be high levels of equipment exchange.
He had taken three steps over the finish line when he turned to an acquaintance to exchange congratulatory high fives.
Broadband, which allows high-speed information exchange over a phone line, has yet to take off in great numbers in Europe.
Against that, a new deal would keep foreign-exchange reserves high, allay lingering investor mistrust and shield Brazil from unexpected shocks.
The scientific colloquium will bring together reputed international scholars, representatives from archaeological services and concerned enterprises for a high-level scientific exchange on the imminent factors impacting underwater cultural heritage.
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The move to directly confront New Ansari and the Afghan bankers could disrupt the relationship between the U.S. and Afghan President Hamid Karzai because of connections between the money exchange and high level Afghan officials.
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The SME board was launched in 2004 to assist smaller growth companies in China to raise capital, and the Shenzhen stock exchange added the ChiNext board, a NASDAQ-type exchange for high-growth, high-tech start-ups, in 2010.
By the time Microsoft's impressive looking upgrade to windows - Vista - comes along in the Autumn, along with the next version of Windows Media Player, it may have got the wireless exchange of high definition video around the home working.
But as those rigid exchange rates require high interest rates, they impose a heavy penalty on growth.
Peg Eddy remembers offering to host a couple of Australian high schoolers for a school exchange program.
The drama ended on Dec. 31 when New Delhi freed three high-profile guerrillas in exchange for 155 hostages.
"We have reached a consensus on high-level visits and exchange of personnel, maritime security... and cooperation between the two navies, " he said.
With each passing day, it is increasingly clear that Syria means to extract a high price from Hariri in exchange for Hizbullah's sought-after participation in his government.
Despite these actions, the Seychelles economy struggled to maintain its gains and in 2008 suffered from food and oil price shocks, a foreign exchange shortage, high inflation, large financing gaps, and the global recession.
In the morning, the Director-General will exchange with the High Panel participants in a private session to be followed in the afternoon by a UNESCO Forum, open to UNESCO Member States and the UNESCO community at large.
So I guess another way of thinking about it is that if -- certainly if we had made a determination that the deal was a permanent tax break for high-income individuals in exchange for these short-term things that people need right now, that would have been unacceptable.
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The fees that credit cards generally add to purchases abroad are often less than you'd pay to get cash at currency-exchange kiosks or hotels, which often have poor exchange rates or high commissions, said Fritz Elmendorf, vice president of the Consumer Bankers Association, a national trade group.
The Karachi stock exchange hit a record high on the expectation of a Sharif-led government.
On July 8, the Karachi Stock Exchange hit a record high, after years in the doldrums.
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