Sentences with phrase «rates weakened the currency»

In Switzerland, but not in Japan, negative interest rates weakened the currency.

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As a result of its weakening economy, China has abandoned its currency peg with the dollar and reduced the yuan's exchange rate on three separate occasions this week.

Like many other Chinese developers, Country Garden has borrowed money from overseas, which could leave it vulnerable to any weakening in the Chinese currency and to higher interest rates in the United States.

Weakening currencies in the post-Soviet states threaten to raise default rates on foreign - currency mortgages as collapse of the Baltic real estate bubble drags down Swedish banks, while the Hungarian property plunge threatens Austrian banks.

It has been over two decades since the popping of Japan's economic bubble and the country is still actively battling with deflationary forces that are so powerful that near - zero interest rates (zero - interest rate policy or ZIRP), repeated bouts of quantitative easing (some call it «money printing») and constant Yen - weakening currency interventions have barely made a dent.

«China has paved the way for a further weakening of its currency by announcing changes in how it measures the value of the renminbi, raising investors» alarm at the prospect a new currency war just as the US prepares to raise interest rates» (FT, 12/12/15).

Asian currencies weakened on Wednesday as the dollar held firm near a four - month high on expectations that a strong U.S. economy would lead to more rate hikes this year.

That intervention helped weaken the country's currency amid widening yen - negative interest rate differentials.

The most effective way to weaken the currency is through a narrowing of the short - term interest rate differential between the US and Canada.

The emerging markets sell - off intensified on Monday with stocks heading for their worst day in almost six months even before Latin American bourses opened, and currencies weakened further until the Turkish central bank prompted speculation it might raise rates by calling an emergency meeting.

On one hand you have the Federal Reserve angling to boost interest rates, while on the other, central banks in Europe and Japan continue efforts to lower rates, thus weakening their respective currencies.

When a currency is worth less, its exchange rate weakens when compared to other currencies.

It's being reported this morning that Argentina, already in the midst of a severe economic turndown as a result of weakening commodity prices and international market conditions, is seizing $ 29 billion in pension assets, this after the country announced a few days ago that it would be devaluing its currency from its current rate of -LSB-...]

Activision blamed weakened foreign currencies, higher tax rates and investment into Blizzard's free - to - play online battle game Heroes of the Storm.