The Fed, of course, as the bank of the dominant power, gains great power over the global monetary system.
Events in Europe continue to cast a shadow over the global markets.
The group blamed the weak UK economy, uncertainty over the global economic outlook and a delay in fulfilling an order for 1, 000 taxis from Azerbaijan.
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By taking over the global smartphone industry, though Apple, has created two other phenomena that will sink Apple in turn, if it does not adapt quickly.
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Subsequent research by Gene Fama and Ken French demonstrated that tilting a portfolio toward small companies and value (distressed) companies offers the opportunity for increased returns over the global market.
It was a down day for the markets on this first trading day of the week, as investors are taking a cautious approach due to concerns over the global economy.
Those who see higher prices said the underlying fundamentals that have supported gold lately, namely ultra-loose monetary policy and continued uncertainty over the global economy, have not changed, which underpins gold.
It is instead control over the global communications market.
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And until the financial crisis is over, the global economy may not recover.
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"China and India will continue to grow and by the time this is all over, the global landscape will look quite different, " George Yeo told a group of visiting foreign journalists.
But improvements in piracy technology are making the problem more acute, draining Nollywood's coffers and confidence and stopping the industry from making the improvements in quality it needs to cross over into the global mainstream.
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Yes, inequality within countries is rising, but the inequality over the whole global population is falling.
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By September, the concerns over the health of the global economy and Euro debt crisis had reached a fever pitch.
Even though more seem ready to accept the possibility that Greece will leave the euro, concerns over the health of the global economy continues to grow.
His departure would cap a tumultuous four years leading Citi, a term peppered with run-ins with regulators and harsh criticism for his management style and his control over the sprawling global bank.
That lack of association between temperature trends and CO2 has continued over the last century, as the up and down pattern of global temperatures over the past 100 years does not follow the upward climb of CO2 as the industrial revolution has expanded globally.
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The "Groundwater Governance: A Global Framework for Country Action" project is in response to the emerging global concerns over the increasingly unsustainable use of groundwater and the degradation of aquifers.
As Hurricane Irene hammers the Eastern Seaboard, the battles over the link between global warming and more frequent and ferocious hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean has resurfaced in the blogosphere.
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Surprisingly, over the same period global inequality has fallen, from 0.66 in the mid-1980s to 0.61 in the mid-2000s, according to Xavier Sala-i-Martin, an economist at Columbia University.
Over the next 40 years the global fleet of passenger cars is expected to quadruple to nearly 3 billion.
Over the longer term, the global footprint should enable Nokia to upsell these consumers although the lead-time is lengthy.
But what enabled the banking crisis to happen was a structural imbalance in the growth model of the global economy over the last two decades.
The internet and technological innovation has been one of the bright shining stars for the United States and the global economy over the last three decades.
The man who coined the term BRIC to explain a structural shift in the global economy over the last decade thinks there has been a new twist.
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But, the report adds, questions about the global economy, governance, evolving methods of conflict, regional spillover, new technologies and the future role of the US could dramatically impact the global picture over the next 20 years.
The TED Conference kicked off this morning in Long Beach, Calif. with a rollicking debate between two very different-thinking economists over the big conundrum facing the global economy: Have we reached the end of progress?
But it would be good to lose some of this bias as economic power shifts to developing countries, particularly China, which took over the top spot in the global PC market from the United States in 2Q11.
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