The peg is maintained at HK$7.8 to US$1 and forces the Hong Kong Monetary Authority to track currently low US interest rates, encouraging speculative flows into the property and stock markets.

美元兑港币的联系汇率保持在7.8港元，这迫使香港金融管理局（Hong Kong Monetary Authority）目前追随美国保持低利率，鼓励了投机资金流入房地产市场和股市。

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In fact,the manufacturers who are filling inventory levels are telling us that inventories were at unsustainably-low levels, and so business is better.

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Friday,Tehran delayed its response to a proposal made by the US, France and Russia to further enrich Tehran's existing stockpile of low-grade uranium.

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Also, thanks to low US dollar value, a record 62 million foreign tourists visited USA in 2011.

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"However, it is very disappointing that low US gas prices have impacted the carrying value of the Fayetteville assets, " he said.

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Which would very definitely lessen the pressure on US wages as they would then be about the same as low end US wages.

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