Indeed, in its simplest terms, inflation is the decline in value of a currency. The flip side of prices generally rising is that your currency can't buy as many goods as it could before. When we say a currency has "weakened" we are saying it can't buy as much in foreign currency ...
First, the weakening yen is a big plus for export-oriented Japanese companies like Toyota. Since most of Toyota's production costs are calculated in yen, and overseas sales are in local currency, when the yen depreciated, Toyota's revenue in yen was higher, thereby increasing profit margins. ...
These recessionary forces emanating from the US and the rising dollar come on top of those created by the big real shocks. In Europe, above all, there is the way in which higher energy prices are simultaneously raising inflation and weakening real demand. Meanwhile, the determination of China’...
The dollar value increased last year almost 25% against all major currencies like the Euro or Yen. What is both the positive side and a negative aspect? How could the US dollar remain as a vehicle currency, if the US government forces balance the trade to all the other c...
There is precedence for Apple adjusting its prices in certain countries due to currency headwinds, and many consumer companies, from P&G to Coca-Cola, are talking about tough pricing decisions as the strong dollar hits earnings and the consumer shows signs of we...
While the press coverage surrounding Lili’s remarkable weakening has largely faded into obscurity, I was able to find one surviving article from USA Today that captures the confusion in the storm’s aftermath: “Scientists Don’t Know Yet Why Lili Suddenly Collapsed.” Hurricane Lili showed forec...
This further shows that with the expected weakening or even reversal of the appreciation of the renminbi, the withdrawal of "hot money" will also accelerate. Third, the current RMB exchange rate is short of fear. Careful observation showed that the actual drop in the first 12 days was only ...
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Although many in the European travel industry cite the weakening yen against either the euro or British pound as an issue, there are other factors at play. One is that other parts of Asia simply offer cheaper — and geographically closer — alternative destinations. Japanese travellers have simply...
The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, but does this model apply in the case of a country like Japan, which is said to have closer family ties than other countries...