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...strong yuan will make goods produced in China more expensive. So it will hurt companies like Target, which buys a lot of its goods there and may have to raise prices for the U.S. consumer. But it will help U.S.-based exporters by making their goods more affordable abroad. A stronger yuan should help bring China and U.S. trade into better balance and soothe tensions...
...company's pain is another's pleasure. The net effect on some sectors will be positive. China's automakers, for example, rely heavily on parts made abroad and export few cars. The stronger yuan will effectively lower their costs by reducing their outlay for tires and other imported components. Meanwhile, firms that have been hurt by the rising price of oil, such as airlines, will also get relief: oil is priced in dollars, so companies earning in yuan will see their energy costs decline by 2.1%. In fact, China's macroeconomic landscape is expected to remain virtually unchanged by this...
...find it scandalous to see the prize blooms of French business go abroad, especially under the Pepsi-Cola banner...
...other tenured Harvard professors are listed as Summer School professors, though they are teaching summer courses abroad...
...National Bureau of Economic Research working paper released this month, Ascherman Professor of Economics Richard B. Freeman argued that the United States has a diminishing advantage in these fields, due mostly to the declining number of science and engineering degrees awarded in the U.S. compared to the number awarded abroad. Europe, Japan, and—surprisingly, according to Freeman—China and India are all outdoing the U.S. in this regard, the report said...