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Raising interest rates can’t stop Japan’s currency from sinking to a record low.
Kenya wants to keep the shilling’s value artificially high, but it will soon realise that foreign currency reserves, used for intervention, are not limitless
Geopolitical shifts that are dividing the world could create problems for the US dollar, traditionally the dominant currency globally for trade and investment.
Does this mean everyone has cheered up about Brexit?
Talk of a joint BRICS currency feeds into ‘decline of the dollar’ rhetoric. But it is the economic bloc’s focus on innovation that will reshape the international system.
So much international trade happens in dollars that it would be very difficult to turn the tide against the currency any time soon.
Despite China’s economic power, the yuan lags as a major global currency. Here’s why current US interest rates and sanctions on Russia may change that.
A third of South Africa’s farming income depends on irrigation. Disruptions in power supply put huge chunks of the country’s agricultural fortunes at risk.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to raise the debt ceiling – and avoid an unprecedented US default – but only if Democrats agree to freeze spending and agree to several other demands.
Slow growth of exports and tourism and a resurgence of global inflation have created dollar shortages in some African economies.
Central banks are reaching into their toolkits to shore up the global financial system.
As President Biden begins meeting with congressional leaders to resolve the debt ceiling showdown, an economist warns the consequences of a default could be dire.
The markets have thumped the new UK government over its fiscally bold ‘mini-budget’.
The greenback is at its heftiest since 2002 and still rising fast.
This is the first time a world currency has been pegged to gold since the Bretton Woods system ended in 1971.
Contrary to most economists, President Erdoğan has long believed that raising interest rates increases inflation.
To understand the euro’s weakness, you have to look at the US as well as Europe.
The country became the first to make bitcoin a formal part of its payments system, but whether it’ll catch on is another story.
El Salvador has become the first nation in the world to make Bitcoin legal tender. So what exactly is President Nayib Bukele thinking?
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