Sentences with phrase «asian currency crisis»

Note per capita C emissions the long rise was suddenly attenuated by the new organization OPEC's cartel price rise in 1974 and maintained relatively flat by major recessions in the early 1980s, 1990s, Asian currency crisis 1997 - 98 and new millennium.

We have also seen non-recession drops that do not get the full benefit of the bear title (e.g., 1998's Asian currency crisis / Long Term Capital Management, 2011's euro - zone, etc.), yet reached the 20 % threshold via «intra-day» price movement and / or «rounding.»

We have even seen non-recession drops that did not get the full benefit of the bear title (e.g., 1998's Asian currency crisis / Long Term Capital Management, 2011's euro - zone, etc.), yet reached the 20 % threshold via «intra-day» price movement.

Remember the Asian currency crisis of the last 1990's?

In 1997 - 98 it was a spreading Asian currency crisis that clocked the U.S. stock market for its largest, second -LSB-...] Read the rest of this entry»

The former Morgan Stanley economist is well - known for having forecast the 1997 - 98 Asian currency crisis.

Not exact matches

Additionally, prices for its major commodity exports - crude oil and palm oil - have dropped sharply and its currency, the ringgit, is trading close to its lowest levels since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.

Prices for major commodity exports crude oil and palm oil have dropped sharply and its currency, the ringgit, is trading close to its lowest levels since the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s.

Consistent with this improvement, many Asian monetary authorities allowed their currencies to depreciate during the global financial crisis.

Their final «stylised fact» provides an accurate description of the subsequent Asian problems: «The «over-borrowing» episode culminates in a financial crisis, capital flight and recession — often forcing an uncontrolled deep devaluation of the currency, with a resurgence of inflation.»

While there has been a somewhat indiscriminate run on the currencies and stocks of emerging markets, fundamentals remain intact in many countries where currency reserves have grown exponentially since the Asian crisis of 1997 — 1998.

If the purpose is to ask how vulnerable a country is to a currency crisis, gross debt (as has been used in the recent Asian episodes) is the better measure.

The list of factors identified from our research [2] on the Asian crisis that pointed to the likelihood of a currency crisis or a wider economic crisis was as follows:

Hence, as a result first of large depreciations of a number of Asian currencies during the Asian crisis of 1997 and 1998, and then their more recent decline with the US dollar, the Australian dollar is now some 60 per cent higher than its post-float average against a group of Asian currencies (Graph 23).

In inflation - adjusted terms, the value of the Australian dollar is at a record level against a trade - weighted basket of east Asian currencies, with a number of these currencies having depreciated markedly at the time of the Asian crisis, and again more recently (Graph 69).

Asian lands reacted to the 1997 - 1998 crisis by cutting foreign borrowing and building foreign currency reserves.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

Another reason is to have a float in case your currency needs to be defended during a financial crisis - i.e. to avoid a repeat of e.g. the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

The currency lost 54 % of its value during the Asian financial crisis of 1998, and it lost 41 % during the 2008 global crisis.

This has certainly been true historically; for instance, the volatility of emerging market currency returns soared during the East Asian financial crisis of 1997 and the devaluation of the ruble in 1998.

The sharp devaluation of the currency during the Asian crisis of the late 1990s further ratcheted up their cost.

While Pathak predicts a decrease in business for firms in the region, he doesn't expect any doomsday scenarios like the ones the Asian market faced in 2001 or with the currency crisis of the late nineties.