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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

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