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All of this is happening in the name of defending the euro currency bloc.
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Our guess is that the boys were making a pun based on the word's similarity to the name of Vietnam's currency.
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Note each foreign central bank such as China, India and Russia just to name 3 of the BRIC aristos, who continue to amass gold as a currency reserve instead of the dollar or the euro.
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"The start of yuan clearing service in Singapore is one more step forward to the internationalization of the renminbi, " said Matthew Cannon, HSBC's head of global markets in Singapore, referring to the Chinese currency by its official name.
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The Moscow Exchange was created in 2011 from the merger of the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange and the Russian Trading System, and only adopted its current name last year.
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On virtually every issue of importance Iran, North Korea, the currency, Palestine, carbon emissions, you name it the two countries have diametrically opposed views and interests.
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But in a global financial landscape dominated by currency wars and talk of sovereign bailouts, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is no longer the only name you need to know in central banking.
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