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Geithner urges more currency flexibility

Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 12, 2012

(Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Thursday that key emerging-market nations must let their currencies rise in value in order permit more stable global growth.



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ECB’s Orphanides wants to stop making banks pay for Greece

Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 6, 2012

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – European Central Bank policymaker Athanasios Orphanides called for euro zone leaders to abandon plans to make private sector investors help reduce Greece’s debts – a move likely to get little traction with the currency bloc’s paymaster, Germany.



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Analysis: Asia’s double-edged currency sword

Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 2, 2012

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The roller-coaster ride for Asian currencies, which saw only the yen and yuan post significant gains for the year against the U.S. dollar, is set to continue in 2012.



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Crisis talk, austerity calls mark euro anniversary

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Policymakers marked the 10th anniversary on Sunday of the introduction of euro notes and coins by urging governments in the currency bloc to save and consolidate to overcome their debt crisis.



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Crisis talk, austerity calls mark euro anniversary

Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 1, 2012

BERLIN (Reuters) – Policymakers marked the 10th anniversary on Sunday of the introduction of euro notes and coins by urging governments in the currency bloc to save and consolidate to overcome their debt crisis.



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China moving to more convertible yuan: Zhou

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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s central bank governor argued in comments published on Saturday that Beijing does not control the yuan’s flow across borders as tightly as some think and that it is natural for the currency’s trading band to be widened over time.



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More IMF in euro zone would be act of desperation: ECB’s Stark

Posted by Reuters: Business News on December 11, 2011

BERLIN (Reuters) – Higher involvement by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the euro zone’s efforts to stem its debt crisis would be an act of desperation, outgoing European Central Bank chief economist Juergen Stark said, calling for a quantum leap by the currency bloc.



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Time of reckoning for the euro zone

Posted by Reuters: Business News on December 4, 2011

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Failure by European leaders at their summit this week to fix the fatal flaw in the euro zone, its lack of political union, would risk tremendous market upheaval, a rupture of the common currency and global economic fallout.



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U.S., UK investors slash euro zone debt: Reuters poll

Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 30, 2011

LONDON (Reuters)- U.S. and British institutional investors walked away from euro zone bonds during November as fears for the future of the currency bloc grew, Reuters asset allocation polls showed on Wednesday.



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China says will "strengthen" yuan’s trading flexibility

Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 19, 2011

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China will make the yuan more flexible in either direction and recent reforms to make the currency more market-oriented have begun to achieve some results, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Saturday.



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