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This
Week Around the World
From Rundt's World
Business Intelligence, Updated Weekly
July 2, 2009
Please note: The next issue of these Briefs will be issued on July
16th, 2009
TRENDS
TO KEEP AN EYE ON
China -the latest push in
Beijing's drive to internationalize the yuan; Croatia - a surprising
resignation and government collapse; Malaysia -a substantial loosening
of the New Economic Policy.
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NIGERIA
Government efforts to approach the
rebel groups in the Delta with a combination of carrots and sticks have
led to stepped-up .......
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ARGENTINA
Expectations that the election
loss will force the Kirchners to change economic policy are.......
The medium-to longer-term outlook.....
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SRI
LANKA
Officials are upbeat about the prospects for
the economy, now that the long civil war is over. In the short run,
they have goof reason for......
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HONDURAS
The ouster of Pres. Zelaya was not
a coup d'etat, but a desperate act to protect the country's democratic
institutions. It is not hard to understand why Hugo Chavez and his
cohorts....
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TURKEY
After more than a year of negotiations with
the IMF, Ankara is still not close to an agreement, as the government
is unwilling to accept the........
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JAPAN
The government and the CB insist
that the worst is over for the economy, but this is not to say that
they are getting ready to abandon......
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UNITED
STATES
The American Clean Energy and
Security Act will accomplish practically nothing in reducing greenhouse
gases, while imposing a hefty......
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NEW
ZEALAND
The current-account BoP gap has
been narrowing, but in a way that does not make the development of a
good one for the .......
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EXCHANGE
MARKET TRENDS
FX FORECASTS
STATISTICAL TABLES
Internat'l. interest rates, spot
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