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5 Bizarre Souvenirs I Brought Back From Vietnam

Peter Mandel | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Trader Joe's, Hanoi's Hang Can Street, Florida, Hanoi, Cheap Souvenirs, Istanbul, Canada, Hue, Snake Wine, Japan, Cvs, Hanoi's Temple of Literature, Souvenirs, Hoi An, Yen, Vietnam, Euros, Viagra, India, Travel News

You can keep your fine art, your lacquerware, your hand-woven silk. When it comes to souvenirs, I want weird.

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Gold Prices Hit Lowest Level Of The Year

AP | SANDY SHORE | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Yen, Recovery, Gold Prices, RBC Global Futures, Stocks, Copper, FInancial Markets, Dollar, Oil Prices, U.S. Agriculture Department, Traders, Europe, Investors, Video, Business News

-- Gold prices hit the lowest level of the year Wednesday as uncertainty about Europe's political and economic future dominated world financial marke...

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Disgraced Company Says Core Business Still Strong Despite Scandal

Reuters | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Olympus Corp, Video, Yen, Fujifilm, Reuters, Samsung, Terumo, Cameras, Accounting, Scandal, Endoscope, Sony, Business News

(Adds dropped quote marks at the end of paragraph 4) * Scandal not seen having much impact on core medical ops * Potenti...

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Stocks Of Apple's Competitors Rise After Jobs' Resignation

AP | PAMELA SAMPSON | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Iphone, Steve Jobs, Eurozone, Yen, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Economic Stimulus Package, Wall Street, Stock Market, Samsung Electronics Co., Glencore, Apple Inc., Credit Agricole, Business News

BANGKOK — Asian stock markets sank Friday as investors waited to see if Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke unveils new steps to help the U.S....

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World Stocks Still Hung Up On Recession Fears

AP | PAMELA SAMPSON | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Dax, Libya, Cac-40, Yen, Japan Earthquake, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Ftse, Wall Street, Opec, Double-Dip Recession, Great Recession, Federal Reserve, World Stocks, Euro, Business News

BANGKOK — Asian stocks mostly inched higher Tuesday after gyrating markets on Wall Street and Europe ended with modest gains. Oil prices rose t...

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Japan's Economy Shrinks For Third Straight Quarter

AP | By MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Tokyo, Video, Natural Disasters, Yen, Japan Earthquake, Dollar, Economic Crisis, Business News, Manufacturing, Financial Crisis, Japan, Consumer Spending, Recession, Business News

TOKYO -- Japan's economy contracted for a third straight quarter as consumer spending and factory production continued to suffer in the aftermath of t...

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Jobless Claims Down As Labor Market Could Be Picking Up

Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Layoffs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Labor Market, Yen, Labor Department, Unemployment Benefits, Jobless Claims, Virgin Islands, Japanese Earthquake, Business News

WASHINGTON - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, offering hope the labor market...

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U.S. Dollar Hits Three-Year Low Against Other Currencies

Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Australia, Stocks, G7, Asian Sovereigns, Standard & Poor's, Federal Reserve, Greenback, Corporate Earnings, Euro, Yen, U.S. Interest Rates, Credit Agricole CIB, Greece, Lehman Brothers, Dollar, Currencies, Business News

LONDON (Jessica Mortimer) - The dollar hit a three-year low against a basket of currencies on Thursday as strong corporate earnings buoyed risk ap...

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Japan Nuclear Operator Shares Hit Record Low

AP | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Shares, Yen, Japan Earthquake, Fukushima, Japan Nuclear Crisis, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Nuclear Energy, Japan, Radioactive Water, Tepco, Nuclear Fallout, Business News

TOKYO -- Shares in the operator of Japan's tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant plunged to their lowest ever Tuesday amid growing doubts about its abil...

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Japan Nuclear Plant Crisis Could Last Months

AP | By RYAN NAKASHIMA and MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 06.03.2011

Read More: Japan Power Grid, Yen, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Tokyo Electric Power, Economic Crisis, Business News, Japan Nuclear Plant, Japan, Business News

TOKYO -- Engineers pinned their hopes on chemicals, sawdust and shredded newspaper to stop highly radioactive water pouring into the ocean from Japan'...

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Japanese Government Plans To Aid Struggling Businesses

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Damage Repair, Japanese Government, Yen, Economic Recovery, Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, Japan Disaster, Economic Devastation, Nikkei, Business News

(Reuters) - The Japanese government plans to dedicate up to 10 trillion yen ($127 billion) in crisis lending to businesses to help them finance da...

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Libya Ceasefire, Yen Stabilization Help Stock Market Rally On Friday

Reuters | Al Yoon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gaddafi, Libya Ceasefire, Currency Manipulation, Yen, Jpmorgan, G7, Oil Prices, Stock Market, New York Federal Reserve, Wall Street, Dow Jones, Nikkei, UN Security Council, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global stocks rose on Friday as traders took on riskier investments following a Libya ceasefire that reduced tension in the reg...

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Yen Intervention Resolves Immediate Crisis, But Japan's Economy Still Threatened

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Group of Seven, Yen, Trade, G7, Japan Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News, Yen Intervention, Central Banks, Monetary Policy, Japan Yen Intervention, Japan, Nikkei, Business News

The yen eased off its all-time high Friday as the world's major central banks lent their support, but Japan's economic troubles are far from over, exp...

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NY Fed Decides To Intervene In Currency Markets

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: NY Federal Reserve Bank, Yen, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, G7, Dollar, Currency Markets, Japanese Economy, U.S. Treasury, Exchange Rates, Euro, Business News

WASHINGTON — The New York Federal Reserve Bank confirmed that it intervened in currency markets on Friday for the first time in more than a decade. ...

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Industrial Nations Intervene As Rising Yen Threatens Japanese Trade

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Japan Yen Trade, Yen, Japan Earthquake, Japan Earthquake 2011, Japan Tsunami, Trade, Dollar, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Economic Crisis, Business News, Currency, Global Trade, Japan, Business News

UPDATE 8:00 AM: The yen fell against the dollar Friday, as the currency intervention announced Thursday night began, Reuters reports. Japan's central...

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G7 Financial Ministers Plan Emergency Meeting

REUTERS | Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Group of Seven, Toshiba Corp, Yen, Yoshihiko Noda, G7, Kaoru Yosano, JP Morgan, Japans Nuclear Plant Crisis, Global Markets, Business News

TOKYO (Reuters) - Financial leaders of the world's richest countries will hold talks on Friday on ways to calm global markets roiled by Japan's nucl...

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Dollar Close To Lowest Value Since WWII

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yen, Bank of Japan, Middle East, G7, Dollar, Currency, Japan, Europe, World War II, China, Japanese Yen, Business News

NEW YORK — The dollar dropped to a record low against the yen late Wednesday as Japan's nuclear crisis deepened. Debt woes in Europe, tension in...

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Investors Rush To Pull Out Of Tokyo Stock Exchange

Reuters | Antoni Slodkowski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Japanese Economy, Tse, Yen, Fear, Japan Earthquake, Toyko Stock Exchange, Investors, Business News

(Reuters) - A massive selloff on the Tokyo Stock Exchange wiped out some 23.5 trillion yen ($287 billion) from the market's value on Monday with i...

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Why Gold Bears Should Hibernate

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government, Gold Standard, Yen, Investment, Stocks, Dollar, Currency, Gold, Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, Business News

The $64,000 question is whether the modern gold rush is actually a mania or, in fact, a legitimate reflection of serious financial and economic stresses.

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Japan: Land of the Rising Debt

Vitaliy N. Katsenelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Debt, Japan, European Sovereign Debt Crisis, Japanese Economy, Yen, Debt Crisis, World News

Investors are scared of the sovereign debt crisis unfolding in Europe. However, they are ignoring a more likely and significantly larger debt catastrophe that is about to hit the second-largest economy in the world -- Japan.

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China, Currency Manipulation and Globalism: The Big Backstory

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Communism, U.S Treasury Bonds, Yen, Davos, Renminbi, Henry Kissinger, Dollar, China Currency Manipulation, Geithner, Japan, World Economic Forum, Zhou Enlai, World News

Beijing orchestrated a two percent swing in the renminbi- dollar rate that has justifiably dampened profit taking by speculators and replicates renminbi market spreads against the Euro.

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Why the United States Might Lose its AAA Rating

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011

A downgrade of the AAA rating of the United States would have profound consequences on our international reputation and leadership. We certainly do not need the aggravation.

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Shrinking Dollar Sets Off Alarms Overseas, But Helps US

Washington Post | Anthony Faiola | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UK, Recovery, Rate Change, Economy, Currency, Globalization, Pound, Recession, Euro, Economic Recovery, Yen, Exchange Rate, Globalisation, Dollar, Japan, China, Home News

The dramatic decline of the U.S. dollar is aiding the American economic recovery but setting off alarm bells overseas, with corporate executives, poli...

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The Yen, the Yuan and the Yunus

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yen, Yuan, Global Currency, Africa, Imf, Poor Nations, Martin Wolf, Macroeconomic Policy, Muhammad Yunus, Helping the Poor, Business News

A global currency would allow emerging economies to borrow in their own currency, avoid currency mismatches and the extreme poor can trade with each other without being exposed to currency risk.

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Toyota Trouble: Posts Largest Loss Since 1950

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Financial Crisis, Japanese Economy, Global Financial Crisis Asian Stocks, Yen, Global Economy, Toyota, Asian Stocks, Business News

Toyota, which just last year posted record profit and dethroned General Motors as the world's largest automaker, said it was headed for its first annu...

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