Secrets are a radioactive currency. They buy influence and …. He desperately wanted his fellow citizens to know how extensively their government, its officials and elected representatives, lied to them in the course of conducting that war. Snowden …
Sitting down to a cup of bitter Croatian coffee, two young entrepreneurs asked themselves with hefty irony why their people went through an appalling civil war to surrender their hard-won sovereignty to faceless eurocrats. It's true, they said, some …
The country of Brazil used the term “currency war” in 2012 when the Brazilian Prime Minister made this statement, “When the real appreciates, it reduces our competitiveness. Exports are more expensive, imports are cheaper and it creates unfair …
It's all a far cry from a year or so ago, when emerging market exporters were battling rising exchange rates and Brazil was accusing Western policymakers of waging currency wars by flooding the world with cheap money. Turkey is now tightening its …
The company has explained that the sudden and dramatic additional downward revision is primarily due to increased competitive pricing pressure from Japan-domiciled competitors in its core business of graphite electrode manufacturing and its graphite …
So, things of those sort would actually impact the balance sheet and hence the valuations. I think the overall scenario in the telecom industry is improving with competitive intensity declining and also the regulator giving indications that it is …
By February 1985 it was trading at more than R2 a dollar and some of my banking colleagues may recall that in July that year all foreign exchange trading was suspended for a few days to try to stop this devaluation. Zimbabwe's controversial land reform …
Critics read into these policies an attempt at competitive devaluation, while proponents note their merit in terms of prudential financial management, economic diversification, and deflation abatement. Until we have a widely-accepted definition of what …
He and his family enjoyed a luxury lifestyle, living in a £1m home in Galby, in Leicestershire, and buying a yacht and flying lessons. David Liversidge, 65, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit false accounting and sentenced to five years, was …