The world is on the brink of a fresh "currency war," Russia warned, as European policy makers joined Japan in bemoaning the economic cost of rising exchange rates.
"Japan is weakening the yen and other countries may follow," Alexei Ulyukayev, first deputy chairman of Russia's central bank, said at a conference today in Moscow.
The push for weaker currencies is being driven by a need to find new sources of economic growth as monetary and fiscal policies run out of room. The yen has slid 11 percent against the dollar since December and this week touched its lowest level in two years.
The alert from the country that chairs the Group of 20 came as Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker complained of a "dangerously high" euro and officials in Norway and Sweden expressed exchange-rate concern.
The push for weaker currencies is being driven by a need to find new sources of economic growth as monetary and fiscal policies run out of room. The risk is as each country tries to boost exports, it hurts the competitiveness of other economies and provokes retaliation.
Yesterday "will go down as the first day European policy makers fired a shot in the 2013 currency war," said Chris Turner, head of foreign-exchange strategy at ING Group NV in London.
The skirmish may lead to a clash of G-20 finance ministers and central banks when they meet next month in Moscow, three months after reiterating their 2009 pledge to "refrain from competitive devaluation of currencies."
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Geesh - we haven't even finished the currency war which began about 2008 and we're starting another one with the same participants and same currencies!
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Actually 2008 turned unto the war on creditors, not currency wars, the central banks were revealed to be a cartel not in the interests of the public.
Interest rates should be around 8% and Bank reserve ratios (deposits stored with the central bank) should be 10%+ level.) Of course this won't happen because exponential debt covers over the harm of income taxes.
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So, Mr Obama do you think Mohamed Morsi can pass the background check to qualify for the ownership of such weapons?
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The world is on the brink of a fresh "currency war," Russia warned, as European policy makers joined Japan in bemoaning the economic cost of rising exchange rates.
