Indeed, a weekend poll indicates that 50% of the German people want the Deutsche mark back.
Montenegro first adopted the deutsche mark and then the euro as its currency, insulating itself from neighboring inflations.
Before Bosnian officials fixed the national currency against the euro in 2002, they used the Deutsche mark as the peg.
In 2002, EMU countries will use only the euro as their legal tender, and the deutsche mark, French franc, Italian lira et al. will cease to exist.
The paradoxical fact is that weak currencies (like the Italian lira, in the pre-euro era, and the Turkish lira) often outperform stronger currencies (like the deutsche mark and the U.S. dollar).
His global macro view was that the Bank of England would no longer be able to support its own currency and that it would tumble relative to the deutsche mark and French franc.
In a May 21, 1985 appearance on the Financial News Network, a precursor to CNBC, I discussed a chart very similar to the one above of the Deutsche mark futures contract traded on the CME.
As it was assumed that a weakened dollar would solve the problem, in 1985 the leading western democracies and Japan announced the Plaza Accords to systematically push down the dollar against the Japanese yen and the Deutsche mark.
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He introduced the rocklike deutsche mark and instituted a regime of periodic tax cuts.
Between 1980 and 1985, the U.S. dollar had appreciated 50% against the Yen, Deutsche Mark, French Franc and British Pound.
The D-mark, or Deutsche Mark, its last incarnation, was introduced by the Allies in 1948 and became the strongest of the European currencies.
Today, as in the 1970s, Germany is Switzerland's largest trading partner, so a new Deutsche mark could in theory substitute for the euro, according to this person, although the bank is considering other scenarios, such as the formation of more than one currency bloc within Europe.
Mark Schoenebaum, a biotechnology analyst at Deutsche Bank, wrote in a note to investors that the company's sales guidance is "conservative" because it represents an increase of only 103 patients taking Lumizyme in addition to 170 who are already getting the drug as part of a compassionate use program.
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