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Since then, most emerging-market currencies have rebounded sharply.
In a pattern sharply etched in financial history, when a large volume of capital flows into small and shallow local financial markets, the exchange rate tends to appreciate, driving up asset prices.
Given property’s role as the main form of collateral for bank loans, financial risk has risen sharply.
The CBO study also made clear that December’s tax-cut agreement between Obama and the Republican opposition willfully and deliberately increased the budget deficit sharply.
But even if America’s wildly excessive military budget is cut sharply (and politicians in both parties are resisting that), there will still be a need for new taxes.
This contrasts sharply with the approach of their global peers like Norway’s Norges Bank, which in recent years has fought poorly governed firms and divested from polluting industries like coal.
In 2014, the price of oil fell sharply, making the previous import level unsustainable and triggering a much deeper collapse.
But, since the end of April, a more persistent correction in global equity markets has set in, driven by worries that economic growth in the United States and worldwide may be slowing sharply.
If that happens, the risk of stall speed or an outright double-dip recession would rise sharply in many advanced economies.
But many people liked that he seemed to say (or tweet) whatever he felt, offering “straight talk” that contrasted sharply with the approach of more polished politicians, including President Xi Jinping, who watches his every word.
The Chinese stock market had fallen sharply, declining some 40% from its recent high.
The Shanghai stock market index soared from 2,200 a year ago to a peak of 5,100 in mid-summer and then dropped sharply, to about 3,000 now.
For a broadly representative sub-sample of 55 companies that could be tracked since 1997, the proportion of revenue generated in the home region has fallen sharply on average, from 50.2% to 36.9%.
While the distribution profiles between employees and revenue could be sharply dissimilar in some companies, on average they were almost identical: for a sub-sample of 73 companies among Europe’s top 100, the home base represented 37% of employees and 35% of revenue on average in 2005, while the rest of Europe accounted for 29% of employees and 28% of revenue.
Forecasts of economic growth are being marked down sharply.
This, everybody agrees, needs to be reduced sharply, since Brazil is having a very difficult time financing that deficit, either through domestic or foreign borrowing.
The IMF’s remedy is a large international loan to Brazil, combined with a pledge by the Brazilian Government to cut its budget deficit sharply.
If the exchange rate is held constant, and budget spending is cut sharply, Brazil will be thrown into a deep recession.
In particular, as European imports from East Asia have fallen, East Asian economies’ growth is down sharply from last year and the 2010 forecast – and, predictably, growth in their imports from the rest of the world has lost momentum.
The West’s uncertainty over Ukraine contrasts sharply with Russia’s clear vision.
Yields on the sovereign debt of the eurozone periphery’s weak economies have fallen sharply.
Such flexibility, by allowing for slight incremental changes over time, would provide investors with greater certainty, as it would sweep aside today's worries about whether or not China can keep its exchange rate fixed at today's level or sharply devalue the RMB downward.
With evidence of sudden capital outflows in response to certain tax-policy changes, governments are reluctant to raise income-tax rates – which have fallen sharply since the late 1970’s – or to tax dividend and interest income, for fear of capital flight.
These large fiscal deficits have been partly monetized by central banks, which in many countries have pushed their interest rates down to 0% (in the case of Sweden to even below zero), and sharply increased the monetary base through unconventional quantitative and credit easing.
But a genuine NATO-wide missile-defense system, in which the US grants its partners a decision-making role, would require the Europeans to do more than simply provide cost-neutral contributions – a problem at a time when all of the NATO countries are cutting their defense budgets sharply.
But, rather than helping the BOJ to reach its 2% inflation target in two years, QE is causing interest rates on government bonds to increase sharply, thereby pushing up commercial lending rates for individuals and corporations.
The other source of international reserves, tourism, brought in only $8 billion, down sharply from $12 billion in 2010.
In the 450 scenario, renewables comprise 30% of the EU power-generation mix in 2030, up sharply from 10% today.
On the contrary, for the last two and a half years, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has been intervening in currency markets for the opposite purpose: to prevent the renminbi’s value from falling too sharply against the dollar.
Just as in the case of the United Kingdom since 2008, the Greek exchange rate would depreciate sharply.
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