My refrain: A stronger dollar is key to taming the inflation outbreak that has so disrupted much of Asia and other parts of the globe in the last year as commodity prices took off.
Transactions and gross dollar volumes are key parameters for MasterCard and Visa and both companies charge their banking clients on the basis of these metrics.
Such a system would provide a stable and secure international monetary system by defining each of the key currencies, specifically the dollar, euro, pound, yen and yuan, respectively, as a unit weight of gold.
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The trade balance and the broader current account balance are obviously key to what happens to the dollar.
But the IRS' attack on split-dollar insurance came months after key congressmen had moved to block the ploy.
But Knight acknowledges that the yen, currently about 113 to the U.S. dollar, will be the key factor in determining Tokyo's desirability as a place to invest.
Heading into the New Year, the European sovereign debt crisis and the future of the European Union remain front and center the key dynamic impacting U.S. dollar flows.
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The key policy breakthrough to unlock these dead resources is for the Fed to commit to maintaining the value of the dollar, with a stable gold price as a key metric and report card.
Makes sense: Companies are willing to pay top dollar to experts who have access to key players in Washington.
Among other recent changes is a likely increase in the weighting assigned to the Australian dollar due to its position as a key supplier of industrial commodities to China.
These categories are especially important because these companies tend to be involved in bigger, higher-dollar projects, and they are often key customers for suppliers and key employers for many of the other construction industries.
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The precious metals continue to be influenced by key outside markets that include the U.S. dollar index, crude oil and the U.S. and European stock indexes.
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The road is a key element of the Maputo Corridor, a seven-billion dollar development initiative, which will eventually include a rail link, an upgrading of Maputo's harbour, factories, shops and hotels.
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The former CEO of the U.K. lender gave his testimony under questioning today from British MPs, who were trying get to the bottom of how and why traders at Barclays had manipulated Libor, a key lending rate between banks that underpins a multi-trillion dollar market for financial products, from late 2008 onwards.
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The U.S. will remain the strongest driver but will need to find markets for selling more as well as buying. (Investment flows, and the strength of the dollar, will figure in this.) Another key factor will be China--how fast it integrates into the world trading system as a nation, and as 30-odd provinces and zones.
The final key, I think, for market direction going forward is the dollar.
The Federal Reserve should have two key tasks--and only two: preserving the integrity of the dollar and dealing vigorously with financial panics to limit unnecessary damage.
The key outside markets were bearish for copper Wednesday as the U.S. dollar index was firmer and crude oil prices were weaker.
The key outside markets were bearish for silver Wednesday as the U.S. dollar index was firmer and crude oil prices were weaker.
The key outside markets were bullish for copper Tuesday as the U.S. dollar index was lower and crude oil prices were sharply higher.
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But the more valid analysis is to look at how much of each dollar spent goes to medical services (which after all is the key component of why we are providing services).
Gold had seen some intensified technical selling pressure early this week, but on Tuesday the key outside markets turned bullish for gold and silver (lower U.S. dollar index, firmer crude oil prices), which brought at least a temporary halt to the downside price pressure on the precious metals.
The key outside markets were in a bullish posture for silver, as the U.S. dollar index was weaker and crude oil prices were higher.
The dollar is being dragged down by continued speculation that the Federal Reserve will cut the key Fed Fund rate at its meeting on Wednesday.
The key outside markets were also bearish for the precious metals Tuesday as the U.S. dollar index was firmer and crude oil prices were sharply lower.
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The key outside markets were also bullish for the precious metals Thursday, as the U.S. dollar index was weaker and crude oil prices were higher.
The key outside markets were in a bullish posture for copper today, as the U.S. dollar index was weaker and crude oil prices were higher.
The key outside markets were in a bearish posture for the copper market as the U.S. dollar index was sharply higher and crude oil prices were solidly lower.
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