Sentences with phrase «dollar financial hit»

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Your financial goals should be about affording the life you want rather than hitting high dollar amounts.

Though it would hit endowments especially hard, where the need to achieve superior investment returns and recruit Wall Street's best talent to handle the billions in endowment assets has led to multi-million dollar compensation that resemble financial services industry pay packages.

Meanwhile its currency, the ringgit, has hit levels seen since the 1998 Asian Financial Crisis and lost as much as 28 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar from the beginning of the year through the end of September.

LONDON, May 2 - The dollar consolidated gains on Friday after hitting a 3 - 1 / 2 month high in the previous session as investors waited for the outcome of a U.S. «Despite the moves we have seen in the dollar in recent days, financial conditions haven't really tightened noticeably but that may change if the rally continues,» said Manuel Oliveri, an FX strategist at Credit...

The dollar hit a 14 - year high overnight and, after a brief pause for breath, is heading back to that high again Friday as financial markets absorb the consequences of what the Federal Reserve did Wednesday, and what that means for next year.

And despite America's spending habits, the greenback is still seen as a safe haven whenever financial crises — including ones caused by Americans — hit because most major countries want to maintain the value of their national reserves, which include dollar - denominated assets.

With a new cyberattack hitting the news on what seems to be a weekly basis, financial heavyweights are investing millions of dollars...

The abandonment of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, which terminated the convertibility of the U.S. dollar to gold, sent financial markets around the globe into a tailspin, with the United Kingdom getting hit particularly hard.

But if we save 10 % to 15 % of our income every year for 10 or 15 years, we should amass a substantial sum — and hit a financial tipping point, where the investment earnings we collect each year start to rival the dollars we sock away.

Don't wait too long to hit Björk's backyard, though: Iceland's 2008 financial meltdown means our dollar now buys 40 % more krona than it did five years ago.

It has been estimated that if a geomagnetic storm like that of 1859 hit today, a large fraction of the North American power grid could be disabled, with estimated recovery times of months to years and financial losses of hundreds of billions of dollars.

The dollar hit a 14 - year high in December, strengthening on ideas of a rising interest rate environment in the US for the first time since the financial crisis almost 10 years ago.