Even more damaging is that Hong Kong's dollar has kept its value while all other currencies in the region (except China's) have fallen.
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Since a devaluation of Thailand's currency, the baht, in July, undermined confidence in the region as a whole, Indonesia's rupiah has lost a third of its value.
One problem is that the block's two largest members have such different currency regimes: Brazil's floating (or sinking) real has lost over 40% of its value since its forced devaluation in 1999, whereas Argentina's peso is pegged to the dollar.
The company's stock has lost about a quarter of its value since the Transocean Ltd.
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Argentina is hanging tough, but Brazil's real has lost 30% of its dollar value this year.
Excluding Wednesday's increase, Sun's stock has lost 68.3% of its value over the past 12 months.
Over the past year, the company's stock has lost 64.0% of its value.
When defaulters' property can be traced inside Pakistan, it often turns out that the country's two-year-long recession has reduced its value.
Over the last month the company's stock has lost 18.8% of its value, and since the beginning of the year its stock has sunk 28.8%.
The stock of the world's largest chipmaker has lost more than half of its value since the beginning of the year, when optimism for a recovery in technology spending was higher.
The SR-71 has proven its value as a complementary system to U.S. space-based reconnaissance assets during the prolonged period from 1985 to 1987 when the United States was unable to place new satellites in orbit.
And the value of the Iranian currency, the rial, has lost at least half of its value against the U.S. dollar from a year ago.
Graham Stewart, the company's chief executive said Faroe has "demonstrated its ability to deliver solid value for shareholders" by the "strengthening of its reserves and production base".
Hewlett Packard's allegations that Autonomy inflated its value prior to a takeover has been flatly rejected by the former management of the UK software firm.
The third problem is China's currency, the yuan, which has lost about 40% of its value against the euro since 2000, making Chinese exports ever cheaper.
For example, a share in Siemens acquired in 1974 for euro8 still sits on the buyer's balance sheet at euro8 today, even though its value has risen hugely.
In a sign of India's precarious position, its currency has lost more than 15% of its value against the dollar since August, making it the worst-performing currency in Asia.
Prices for Australia's commodities have fallen as a result and the value of its exports has been reduced.
Recently, Malawi's currency, the kwacha, lost almost half its value and this has put a strain on the running of businesses.
Since the beginning of the year Hewlett-Packard's market value has risen 18.8%, while competitors Dell has seen its stock rise 36.0%.
Even America, with least to worry about in this respect (because of the size of its economy), has a policy of sorts on the dollar's value including attempting to push the rate around by means of foreign-exchange intervention.
However, the Fed has yet to use its most effective artillery: strengthening the value of the U.S. dollar.
You will note that during her trip, Indonesia's currency reached its highest value for the past six months and the stockmarket has broken all kinds of records over the past 12 months.
Under Friedman, Associated's per-share earnings and asset value have deteriorated rapidly, and its debt has ballooned.
But LICH only has room for his head, not the marble slab behind it, which also has memorable value: Its 38-year-old designer married Dr. Skene's 60-year-old widow in 1903.
Like the rest of the financial sector, Sallie's stock has been vanquished by the financial crisis, losing 77.3% of its market value over the past year, and 91.6% since July 2007.
This is a somewhat beguiling metric to compare companies by -- market cap measures the value of a company's shares available on the market, and not every company has the same proportion of its overall value available in stocks -- but it illustrates well the diametrically opposite directions in which the two mobile phone makers are moving.
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It's been a painful year for investors in the company, which has lost more than half of its value since January.
The euro's trade-weighted value, however, has risen by much less, taking it back to its value at launch in January 1999.
Given the fall in the pound of about 25% in its trade-weighted value from mid-2007, Britain's trading performance has been rather disappointing.
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