Sentences with phrase «of global reserves»

In particular, a relatively new form of nuclear technology could overcome the principal drawbacks of current methods — namely, worries about reactor accidents, the potential for diversion of nuclear fuel into highly destructive weapons, the management of dangerous, long - lived radioactive waste, and the depletion of global reserves of economically available uranium.

For the time being, much of the analysis on the financial losses focuses on the plunge in oil and coal prices, and the potential that a huge portion of the global reserves of oil, gas, and coal will be «stranded» in the ground to curb climate change.

The «Lithium Triangle» is the major industrial producer of lithium and holds over 70 % of global reserves.

Today's «Big Five» possess less than 5 % of global reserves — national oil companies control most of the rest.

The key to understanding the implications of global reserve changes is knowing that these changes are mostly driven by attempts to manipulate exchange rates.

Perhaps the rest of the world should consider the possibility of no global reserve currency, or keep the US Dollar, or, move to a commodity standard like gold or oil.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday it will freeze its benchmark currency basket until October 2016, giving markets more time to adjust to the possible addition of China's yuan as part of a review of global reserve currencies.

This will help with the diversification of global reserve assets.

Not exact matches

Even more amusing was the realization that the Quebec maple syrup industry maintains a «global strategic reserve» in much the same way that countries keep mass stockpiles of oil or grain.

The warehouse in Saint - Louis - de-Blandford, one of four where the federation maintains its global strategic reserves, was meant to be just a temporary home.

Releasing a report responding to Ceres — a group made up of institutional investors which has for years been pushing resource companies to disclose their carbon bubble risks — Exxon vice-president of corporate strategic planning William Colton said, «All of ExxonMobil's current hydrocarbon reserves will be needed, along with substantial future industry investments, to address global energy needs.»

Just to put costs in context: China's huge $ 1.8 trillion in foreign reserves would cover the costs of global power projection for about two years.

These types of operations, though, aren't just reserved for nation states or multibillion - dollar global enterprises

Smaller Singapore peer Temasek Holdings focuses on equities, but GIC, set up to manage Singapore's foreign reserves, adopts a more conservative investment strategy, with the long - term goal of beating global inflation.

Global shale resources are vast enough to cover more than a decade of oil consumption, according to the first - ever U.S. assessment of reserves from Russia to Argentina.

The project, still under construction, will be one of the first links between massive American gas reserves and the global oil market.

The UN has recommended 17 % of annual grain consumption as a reasonable global safety reserve.

The likely eventual inclusion of the Chinese yuan in the elite rank of «reserve currencies» will not threaten the global leadership position of the US dollar, which currently accounts for over 60 % of global currency reserves.

«A meaningful slowdown in global trade may result in less FX reserve accumulation globally, reducing the need to buy US Treasurys,» a group of BAML strategists led by Carol Zhang wrote in a client note.

The underlying determinants for these declines are related to the global supply and demand for funds, including shifting demographics, slower trend productivity and economic growth, emerging markets seeking large reserves of safe assets, and a more general global savings glut (Council of Economic Advisers 2015, International Monetary Fund 2014, Rachel and Smith 2015, Caballero, Farhi, and Gourinchas 2016).

Chinese authorities had been propping up the yuan, contributing to an almost $ 300 billion drop in foreign - exchange reserves over the last four quarters, as policy makers sought to deter capital outflows and encourage global usage of the currency.

As I've already noted, Fed policies have significant effects internationally, given the central place of U.S. markets in the global financial system and the dollar's status as the leading global reserve currency.

Any economic and fiscal update would have to take into account the worsening global economy, the decline in the price of oil (to below $ 40 a barrel) compared to the assumption in the budget, and the restoration of the contingency reserve to its normal level of $ 3 billion.

Many investors have invested in bitcoin to avoid global markets volatility and devaluation of reserve currencies.

Foreign exchange volatility, visibility of global cash reserves and access to it, cash repatriation and global exposure, working in restricted markets were some of the key challenges highlighted by the global corporate treasury executives in business consulting firm Deloitte just...

The problem is for this or other currencies to become international reserves held by foreign central banks, the issuing nation has to run a balance of payments deficit to pump this currency into the global economy.

Based on the overwhelming popularity of the Dollar among the G20 nations, it's highly unlikely the greenback will be dethroned as the global reserve currency.

Today, it's perched atop global currency markets as Canada wins acclaim for its economic outlook and handling of the public debt, a point driven home Wednesday when a Russian Central Bank official confirmed that the Canadian dollar would be added to its international reserves.

What led to the demise of the gold standard has relevance to today's challenge to the dollar as the global reserve currency.

Due to the massive debt being amassed by government spending, the role of the dollar as the global reserve currency is threatened.

Ben Bernanke's global savings glut thesis is another example of the primacy of capital flows, and indeed the decision by East Asian countries to accumulate savings in the form of soaring foreign exchange reserves, which set off the savings glut, was itself the likely response to the 1997 Asian crisis, which occurred as a consequence of a sharp reversal of capital flows to the afflicted Asian countries.

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

For much of my career I pretty much accepted the consensus, but as I started to think more seriously about the components of the balance of payments, I realized that when Keynes at Bretton Woods argued for a hybrid currency (which he called «bancor») to serve as the global reserve currency, and not the US dollar, he wasn't only expressing his dismay about the transfer of international status from Britain to the US.

Recently, Ecuador nearly doubled its estimates of the ITT block's reserves, although even this amount is equal to merely seventeen days of global oil consumption.

The sponsors withdrew the resolution after the company agreed to report on how much of its oil and gas reserves would become unsellable — or stranded — if a global treaty decreased fossil fuel demand.

The future of the US dollar as the global reserve currency is one of the special topics tackled in great detail this year, as is the rise of populist politics, and potential «black swans» or «gray swans», which continue to lurk in the global financial landscape, awaiting discovery by the unwary.

A Paris - based intergovernmental organization, the IEA was established during the 1973 oil shocks and was charged with coordinating international responses to global oil crises, including the release of strategic reserves.

In my opinion, there is no better inventory for a company to own, given the grave fragility of the global banking and finance system, than the only real, sound money in the entire world, proven and probable reserves of physical gold and physical silver.

In a 6/25/15 address to the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) forum (brought to our attention by Luke Gromen in his newsletter, The Forest for the Trees), Dr.Yao Yudong of the People's Bank of China stated, «Main reserve currency issuers may either fail to adequately meet the demand of a growing global economy for liquidity as they try to ease inflation pressures at home, or create excess liquidity in the global markets by overly stimulating domestic demand.»

Upturn in Sentiment Buoys Some Emerging - Market Risk Assets There has been a welcome stabilization in global financial markets in recent weeks, which has been helped by indications from the European Central Bank (ECB) that it stood ready to expand its quantitative easing (QE) program, the possibility that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) might do the same, and a decision by the People's Bank of China (PBOC) to further cut interest rates and relax reserve requirements.

Traditionally, large global money center banks served to reduce such market volatility by buying and selling reserves of securities and other financial instruments to take advantage of short - term anomalies in market prices.

A Nuanced View of Global Prospects 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 1980s.

Effectively, the rise of the US dollar... and later the euro currency, from a single currency to a global or regional currency was supported by their huge gold reserve....

The Company is developing the NICO cobalt - gold - bismuth - copper project, comprised of a proposed mine and mill in Canada's Northwest Territories & refinery in Saskatchewan, to become a vertically integrated producer of cobalt chemicals for the lithium - ion battery industry with over a million ounces of gold and 12 % of global bismuth reserves as by - products.

The People's Bank of China, China's central bank, has traditionally held about 10 % of its reserves in gold — making it a global heavyweight in the precious - metals sector.

Because of the 1994 Bretton Wood agreement, all currencies around the world are priced in USD (making the U.S. dollar the global reserve currency).

A bigger fall would clash with China's aim of promoting the renminbi as a strong global reserve currency, says Jessop.

The global economic crisis raised the value of gold fourfold, while the overwhelming majority of central bank reserves in developed countries are invested in gold.

shale oil may be a bubble but countries like Libya Iraq Iran produce nothing compared to their potential / production capacity + there is always offshore exploration recently Morocco seems to be in the spot light not to mention the arctic sea / north pole especially Russia where a new Koweit is to be found and also south China sea Venezuela's tight oil if all the types of oil are included venezuela must be a heaven with a quarter of global oil reserves with +300 billion barrels more than 260 bbls of Saudi Arabia that can still produce more than 10/11 million barrel / day that it's procucing today.

The deficit projections include a $ 6 billion annual prudence reserve, which reflects the high level of risk and uncertainty in the global economy.