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For the US, the combination of a stronger economy and less accommodative monetary policy will put additional upward pressure on the dollar s exchange rate which has already appreciated significantly against both the euro and the yen. With few other countries willing to allow their currencies to strengthen, the dollar s tendency toward appreciation will remain strong and broad based, potentially triggering domestic political opposition.

For example, Poland and the Czech Republic have seen their currencies go up by close to 30 and 15 , respectively. Major countries also have undergone currency appreciations 30 for Japan and 15 for China.

Don t Fear a Rising Dollar

The change can be measured by real exchange rate appreciation, which consists partly in nominal renminbi appreciation against the dollar, and partly in Chinese inflation. China s government should have let more of the real appreciation take the form of nominal appreciation (dollars per renminbi).

GWPs would be those developed by the IPCC.

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Don t Bet on a Stronger Dollar

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Fortunately, the market consensus concerning the dollar s inevitable rise as US interest rates increase is almost certainly wrong, for three reasons.

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15. The national currency has stabilized, depreciating by 1.5 per cent against the United States dollar in 1997, which resulted in a real appreciation of 3 per cent. Credit growth has been strong.

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At the same time, the effect of currency appreciation on the trade balance should not be exaggerated. The RMB appreciated by 18.6 in real effective terms, and by 16 in dollar terms, from June 2005 to August 2008.

The yen s value against the US dollar has declined by more than 7 in the last month. With the euro rising relative to the dollar, the yen s fall relative to the euro has been even greater.

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A first reason to doubt projections of a stronger dollar is that none of the news on which they are based is really news. The expectation of relatively strong US growth is already being reflected in the markets, with the dollar up 9 in trade weighted terms since mid 2014.

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But whether renminbi appreciation will work depends on reducing China s net capital inflows and current account surplus. International experience suggests that, in the short run, more capital flows into a country when its currency appreciates, and most empirical studies have shown that gradual appreciation has only a limited effect on countries current account positions.

NEW YORK So far, discussions about whether or not China should revalue its currency, the renminbi, have focused almost exclusively on the impact of the currency s exchange rate on China s trade balance. But what would an appreciation of the renminbi do to China s inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI)?

In addition, due to the appreciation of the euro against the United States dollar, the actual unit cost of vehicles was higher than budgeted.

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But some of them have been much more incremental.

The gross domestic product (GDP) of Canada grew by 0.2 in July compared with the previous month, with a higher than expected growing rate, raising market expectations that the Bank of Canada will raise interest rates next month.

As the United States dollar strengthened against nearly all major currencies, the overall currency effect on the Fund was negative in United States dollar terms.

Spain and Greece have managed to achieve an internal devaluation of about 5 this year vis à vis Germany, but their competitiveness vis à vis the US and dollar linked countries has not improved, because the euro has appreciated by more than 5 against the dollar. And, indeed, the euro should appreciate, because the eurozone as a whole is now running a large current account surplus.

The Committee notes that most of the expenditure of UNHCR is incurred in Swiss francs, which appreciated considerably against the United States dollar during the 2002 2003 and 2004 2005 financial periods, going from 1.575 to the dollar to 1.359 and then to 1.2.

That result was mainly owing to the strengthening of the United States dollar and the investment returns since the last valuation.

The euro s recent rise against the dollar is a case in point by most accounts, euro bulls have been reacting to the enormous US current account deficit, a surging euro zone economy, and rising euro interest rates. What is irrational about factoring in such fundamentals when trading a currency?

Large current account surpluses and or rising terms of trade imply that the equilibrium real exchange rate (the relative price of foreign to domestic goods) has appreciated in countries like China and Russia. Thus, over time the actual real exchange rate needs to converge via real appreciation with the stronger equilibrium rate.

The exchange rate of the renminbi against the US dollar rose only about 3 between June 2010 and the year s end. According to an analysis used by some American economists and politicians, the low rate of currency appreciation, combined with Chinese export growth of 31 in 2010 over 2009, should have increased China s trade surplus by a wide margin.

In the US, the inflation rate has also been depressed by the rise in the value of the dollar relative to the euro and other currencies, which has caused import prices to decline. This, too, is a level effect, implying that the inflation rate will rise once the dollar's exchange rate stops appreciating.

The ECB can curb the euro s appreciation through purchases of foreign currency. But, ultimately, it would have to do so by inflating its own currency until confidence in the euro falls back to the level that it had before the assurances were made.

SHANGHAI The question of how much China s currency should appreciate to rebalance its trade has become a global hot button issue. But the answers have been all over the map, with some finding that the yuan is not undervalued at all, while others argue that it should appreciate against the dollar by more than 30 .

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