currency war

A YEAR ago Brazil's finance minister, Guido Mantega, declared that the world had entered into a "currency war" .

The two protagonists of the current currency war, China and the US, are now trying to speed or slow the process respectively.

Guido Mantega, Brazil's finance minister, had the courage to say what many were thinking: that the world is in the middle of a currency war.

Amid all the talk of a "currency war" between the US and China, the greatest surprise may be that talk, so far, is all we have had.

For many commentators, the resumption of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve has appeared to spark a currency war between the U.

If it really does make sense to talk of a currency "war" , then, there is at least one sense in which everyone loses.

With the situation in Europe under stress we expect to see a continuation of the currency war in coming months.

This year has not been a catastrophic lurch into trade and currency war.

Formally, at least, the U. S. and China have avoided fighting an all-out currency war.

Instead, we could get a global currency war that would doom the already anemic recovery rather than help any of its combatants.

Indeed, the currency war being urged by some American politicians would open up a Pandora's box for the U. S. economy.

The fear that a global "currency war" could get out of hand in 2011 will certainly be a theme of the World Economic Forum.

Brazil's finance minister speaks of a latent currency war, and he is not far off the mark.

The re-regulation of capital movements is also moving up the international agenda, amid talk of a "global currency war" .

German exporters are expressing growing anxiety about the appreciation of the euro against the US dollar and the prospect of a currency war.

The currency war, and its attendant risk of a full-blown tariff war to follow, could halt or slow the process long before it is completed.

We shouldn't sensationalize this idea of a currency war -- but there is a modicum of truth that this is some kind of conflict.

This "currency war, " although far different from its military namesake, has equally significant implications for free-market global trade.

As finance ministers from the most powerful nations prepare to meet this weekend, the talk was of a currency "war" .

In recent weeks, the phrase "currency war" has been used liberally.

When Brazil's finance minister spoke of an imminent currency war he was not far off the mark.

The move fuelled fears of a full-blown currency war, as countries try to protect their exports.

The tectonic plates of foreign exchange have shifted; warnings about a currency "war" are no longer alarmist.

For now, these skirmishes fall far short of a real currency war.

The euro will also benefit from a "currency war, " in which many countries are intervening to keep their currencies weak to protect exports.

We can hope that this dance will deliver a temporary delay of the looming trade and currency war.

If the world is on the brink of an out-and-out currency war , a variety of battalions has been out on manoeuvres in the past few weeks .

The rest of the G20 worries about being caught in the crossfire of a global currency war.

But this economic truth will not keep a currency war from breaking out unless politicians and central bankers decide to recognise it.

Brazil is a major figure in the currency war debate and without it at the G20 table this weekend we doubt any resolutions can be found.

Perhaps the real indignity for Washington is that, as it ponders a trade war with its biggest creditor, China is winning the currency war.

Retaliating against China via trade sanctions would recklessly spread the existing currency war into the trade realm.

In some ways a currency war would be a modern form for a trade war.

So whilst a "currency war" was always unlikely "skirmishes" will continue.

Being frustrated politicians ourselves, we at the Federal Reserve always enjoy your currency war tub-thumping.

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Finance ministers went further than expected in agreeing to cooperate to reduce global imbalances and avoid a currency war.

Cui Tiankai, a Chinese deputy foreign minister, said other countries needed to co-operate to avoid a currency war.

Brazil's finance minister has warned of 'an international currency war. '

Brazil's finance minister has talked of an "international currency war" .

There's a global currency war brewing, and the U. S. thinks China isn't playing fair.

That will be frustrating for Brazil, once aligned with China in the "currency war" but increasingly pitted against it.

Even if the Swiss move could trigger a currency war, the SNB had little option but to act, decisively and radically.

We're in the midst of an international currency war, a general weakening of currency.

If a currency war is in the offing, America's congressmen seem increasingly determined to arm themselves.

After last week's disappointing summit of the Group of 20 leading economies, a full- blown currency war may look unavoidable.

These are the types of changes on which the G-20 agenda next month should focus, rather than on a currency war.

No wonder the Brazilian finance minister is talking about a "currency war" .

Some are not benefiting, of course, but that is not a reason to blame China for engaging in a currency war.

No one can win a currency war, but you can certainly hurt the purported enemy.

'Under the current situation, to choose a trade war or currency war is a losing proposition, ' Mr. Ba said.

In other words, Fed policy could intensify a worldwide currency war.

But if a currency war is brewing, more countries will pile up the sandbags.

Has the time for a currency war with China arrived?

The emerging economies are winning the currency war.

Is this the beginning of a currency war that could broaden into a trade war?

The world may not yet have descended into all-out currency war but it is a very long way from having negotiated a lasting armistice.

But with no concrete plans in place to avoid a currency war in the future, the dollar resumed its fall.

Both sides will be losers should a trade war or currency war break out.

'It is the dollar that triggered the currency war, ' Li wrote.

As Lhanaasuren Purevdorj, governor of the central bank, says: "Our currency war begins in 2013. "

This marks a major new round in the currency war.

If this is a currency war, then South Korea is breaking out the cluster bombs.

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