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...regional total in 2008, down from nearly 40% in 1998. Over the same period, intraregional exports as a share of total exports in emerging Asia rose to 54% from 46%. "Intra-Asian trade flows are the fastest growing in the world," says Lawrence Webb, global head of trade and supply chain at HSBC. This trend has accelerated since the financial crisis. HSBC predicts that trade among Asian countries will grow at an annual average rate of 12.2% until 2020. The region's trade with the U.S. is projected to grow 7.3% annually over the same period...
...previous paragraph made your head hurt, don't be discouraged. Nobody fully understands global monetary arrangements; the best that experts in the field seem to be able to do is worry vaguely. So what are the rest of us to do other than worry vaguely? Think twice about traveling to Europe, maybe, because it's really expensive. Hope a somewhat weaker dollar will help revive this country's beaten-down manufacturing sector - as seems to be happening - but also hope a dollar slide doesn't turn into a collapse. And put at least some of your money into investments (foreign...
...Quakers tacked on three more points with a field goal in the last minute of the half to head into the locker room on top, 17-0—a margin made more daunting by heavy rain that soaked up the field throughout the game...
Davidson was acting as the head coach for the day, with the Crimson’s regular skipper, Stephanie Wriede Morawski ’92, nursing her new baby...
...That’s a ten-minute and 26-second race, and she was tough enough to put her head down and get it done. It was the first individual event. It set the tone. It speaks to her toughness and versatility,” he added...