The barbs come as Sanders is gaining momentum in the polls, coming out on top of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the first time in a poll of New Hampshire Democrats.
One of the highest profile, women who singled out Donald Trump by tweeting him directly about their menstrual cycles under the hashtag #aperiod isnotaninsult. Sanders quipped. “I apologize. We forgot to bring it”. “I’m going to show them a world without...
The major study into the health risks of dietary fats failed to find a link between food with saturated fats and a higher risk of death from heart disease, type-2 diabetes or stroke. The industrial trans fats were especially problematic when it came to the risk for coronary heart...
The eurozone’s hopes for a strong economic recovery this year have soured over the past couple months, partly because of the crisis over Greece’s future in the currency zone and fading growth in China.
So the notion that China is evolving into a more market-oriented country is to impose a particularly American perspective on Chinese actions. Impose trade barriers if Beijing will not comply. By 1994 it was 8.62 RMB to the dollar (the lowest ever on the record).
The value of the yuan has gradually returned to market levels as the discrepancy between the central parity rate and the actual trading rate has been largely corrected after declines in the past few days, Zhang Xiaohui, assistant governor of the People’s Bank of China...
In a note published on Tuesday, after the first devaluation of 2 percent was announced, the PBoC said that monetary policy would now allow the currency to float and trade more freely, in a move towards a more market-orientated approach. France and Italy were the main...
Duke University business professor Campbell Harvey says China wants the yuan to eventually become a “reserve” currency like the dollar and the euro. “Looking at the worldwide and domestic economic situation, now there is no basis for a sustained depreciation...
“In the long run the renminbi is still a strong currency”, PBOC assistant governor Zhang Xiaohui said, adding that China was running a trade surplus and had a sound fiscal position and rich foreign exchange reserves.
The central bank put the yuan’s central parity rate at 6.4010 yuan for $1.0, the China Foreign Exchange Trade System said, a drop of 1.11 percent from the previous day’s 6.3306.