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Stock prices have climbed, led by financials and industrials; interest rates on US government bonds have risen, both on a standalone basis and relative to those in other advanced economies; and the dollar has surged to levels not seen since 2003.
Astounded East Germans surged like a human sea to the crossing points to the West.
Whenever the dollar was weak, capital surged into alternative currencies, notably the Japanese yen and the German Mark.
After the government clamped down on lending for residential and commercial projects, risky shadow banking activity surged.
The Eurozone Island of StabilityBRUSSELS – Market volatility has surged lately, apparently vindicating those who have warned of lofty equity valuations.
High tech exports surged from 16% annual growth in 1995-96 to 53.5% in 2000-01.
At the same time, long-term interest rates have continued to come down in recent years; the value of the dollar has surged; gold and commodity prices have fallen sharply; and bitcoin was the worst performing currency of 2014-2015.
Although the world population has surged to 7.5 billion, only about 750 million people – just 10% of the total population – live in extreme poverty today.
In response, investors have sold the US dollar and bid up equity prices and US Treasuries, and commodities and emerging-market assets have surged.
Last June, the annualized interbank lending rate surged to more than 10% – a level that it almost matched in December.
Last week, the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) reported that the number of refugees worldwide surged by more than 20% last year, to 19.5 million, with the total number of people displaced by conflict reaching a post-World War II high of nearly 60 million.
Access to primary health care has surged, from 25% of the population in the early 1990s to 93% in 2006.
Although corruption has been declining in most of the former Soviet Union, it has surged in Russia since 2004, becoming more rationalized and concentrated.
As a result, China’s online retail sales have surged in recent years, from 6.3% of total retail sales in 2012 to 12.9% by 2015.
Economic activity collapsed and unemployment surged.
Having already surged on account of Iran-related geopolitical concerns, they are altering American consumers’ behavior, weakening their confidence, aggravating the country’s payments imbalances, and further reducing policymakers’ flexibility.
The number of international migrants has surged in recent years, reaching 244 million in 2015 – a 41% increase from 2000.
Oil prices have surged to more than $100 per barrel, as China, India, and other oil-importing countries join the United States in a massive scramble to buy up supplies, especially from the Middle East.
But, since 2008, measured inequality, which was rising even before the financial crisis, has surged, owing largely to the very measures that are so often lauded for preventing another Great Depression.
Illegal immigration has been low overall in recent years, though in both 2014 and recently, it has surged, driven often by a combination of motives.
The conversation changed after 1978, when China surged ahead of India economically, causing many to conclude that India’s chaotic democracy was holding back its people.
The Liberal Democrats under Nick Clegg have surged remarkably, and may even push ahead of Labour in the popular vote.
Meanwhile, disapproval of US leadership has surged by 15 points, to a median score of 43%, compared with 36% for Russia, 30% for China, and 25% for Germany.
Since renminbi internationalization was launched in 2009, exchange-rate arbitrage and the carry trade have surged.
By contrast, Japan and the United States private employment has surged, while government employment has grown little.
To be sure, Chinese imports remain focused on intermediate goods, with imports of raw materials like iron ore having surged over the last decade.
Moreover, at the end of February, with the country running low on reserves, Ukraine’s currency, the hryvnia, lost half its value; as a result, annualized inflation surged to 45% in March.
Economic growth surged ahead, and returns on public investment soared, reaching an annual growth rate above 9% of GDP, shortly after the reforms were implemented.
True, private capital flows have surged in the wake of global liberalization and these countries’ privatization schemes.
Ireland’s accumulation of wealth during its Celtic Tiger period, when the country surged toward the top of Europe’s economic league table, has also been an effective shock absorber.
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