Clothing and footwear manufacturers, hurt in recent years by a strong currency, are hiring again.
Brazil has become an expensive country, with a strong currency, and that has eroded the competitiveness of its industry.
For decades politicians had mouthed their support for a strong currency, but Nixon cut through the claptrap.
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If the euro buys less burger than it should, perhaps inflexible wages, not a strong currency, are to blame.
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Ultimately a strong currency is consistent with low, not high rates of interest.
The government may well decide to portray a strong currency as a sign of success, not an unwelcome burden.
Brazil, meanwhile, is struggling with an economic-policy cocktail that blends a strong currency, loose fiscal policy and tight money.
In time, having a strong currency may once again come to be seen as an advantage, not a handicap.
The federal government supported a strong currency to facilitate our internal market and ensure foreign markets worked in our favor.
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They are less leveraged and have a strong job market and a strong currency to back them up in Brazil.
Brazil is not alone in Latin America in relying on a strong currency to combat the region's ancestral vice, inflation.
Alas, Bernanke shows no grasp of the need for a strong currency.
At this point, Dilma appears to have surrendered to a strong currency.
As exporters are finding, the main brake has been a strong currency.
The conventional wisdom seems to be that a strong economy produces a strong currency and that a strong currency produces a strong economy.
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In recent years Brazil's manufacturers have been hobbled by a strong currency, high interest rates, high taxes, poor infrastructure and a poorly educated workforce.
The notion that it might be a disaster is based on the misconception that a strong currency is somehow a symbol of economic virility.
The Yen remains a strong currency compared with other currencies, and this makes Japanese goods more expensive in markets that it would like to export to.
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This shows that in the past two years Japan's official position on the yen has shifted, from favoring a strong currency to advocating a weaker yen.
Fierce competition from the likes of Samsung, a strong currency - although there are signs the yen in weakening - and strategic mistakes, have undermined the country's global leadership in electronics.
The industrial sector in Brazil especially steel companies like Gerdau (GGB) have been hammered because of the dual problems of a strong currency and a global oversupply of steel.
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Other countries whose trade is mostly within the euro area point to the inflation-controlling benefits of a strong currency, when it comes to buying imports and above all oil (which is priced in dollars).
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The problem in Brazil is not so much currency appreciation, but how its consumption based economic model interacts with a strong currency, says Tony Volpon, head of Latin America research at Nomura in New York.
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After the Olympics came a vast transformation to the current Michelin star-studded gastronomic paradise, likewise a renaissance for office towers, shinkansen fast trains, freeways and, later, mass foreign tourism with a strong currency and credit cards.
This includes FTSE in the United Kingdom, France whose CAC 40 is dangerously close to the old lows of 2000 and 2009 as well as Switzerland which suffers the embarrassment of a strong currency making their exports too pricey.
Higher rates also makes Brazil extremely attractive to the carry-trade, as investors from low yielding economies will pour into the Brazilian bond market, strengthening the real to the 1.80 level in a flash, and causing mild panic within the Finance Ministry who will argue that Brazil cannot compete in this market with such a strong currency.
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At the same time, a strong Australian currency has also hurt the exports sector.
Through years of hard work and saving, Japan built up national assets that were much larger than its debt, a cushion also available to the U.S. Japan has a strong-currency policy, causing much of Japan's savings to stay home.
First, EM currency appreciation has stopped since 2011 following a period of strong currency appreciation following the global financial crisis.
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