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Huge losses sustained by sovereign wealth funds. Estimated $350 billion for Gulf foreign reserve funds and SWF's, according to RGE Monitor's Rachel Ziemba, or 27% of assets. Sovereign Wealth funds are either using their funds for supporting their local banks as in the Gulf areas, or buying back stakes of cash strapped western banks like RBS in the case of China. Russia, China and other countries are using their SWF's for stimulus spending. And Russia, Gulf economies that are dependent on oil prices, are looking at possible sale of foreign assets at oil prices between $50 and a deterioration to $25. Only China has a surplus that is sustained through the last quarter of 2008, but this is changing quickly as imports pick up after the stimulus kicks in, and exports drop precipitiously in 2010. South Korea and Russia have also learned of the need to have liquid safe investments preferably in dollars in the current crisis, as they have learned how large capital outflows can get in a short time. And the US is not looking at these large capital inflows from overseas as a benevolent thing, because it overvalues American assets, and leads to all sorts of distortions in liquidity and pricing of risk that contributed to the current crisis. In short the whole situation with SWF's has a suprising ending, as with everything in the current crisis, nothing worked out as expected or planned.
The impact of the 2008 global financial crisis on Sovereign Wealth Funds of Russia, China, the Gulf Countries and other SWF"s
02/03/2009
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Economist 02/03/2009
Russia Faces Tough Fight on Ruble
Wall Street Journal 02/04/2009
Yaroslavl: A Russian Burg Turns Bearish
BusinessWeek 03/12/2009
Russia Bonds Still Confront a Deep Chill
Wall Street Journal 04/04/2009
Euro-Dollar and Yuan -Dollar Exchange Rates and Economic growth worldwide- 2009-2013
12/06/2006
Grouped Articles
Europe Is Giving Global Economy A Surprise Boost Amid U.S. Lull - WSJ.com
Wall Street Journal 12/06/2006
As Dollar Weakens, Paulson Faces Challenge of Tempering Its Decline - WSJ.com
Wall Street Journal 12/09/2006
Wall Street Journal 11/04/2008
Geithner Hints at Harder Line on China Trade
New York Times 01/23/2009
China Rejects Currency Manipulation Charge
New York Times 01/25/2009
Wall Street Journal 01/26/2009
Russia's Stimulus Spending
01/22/2009
Russian stimulus spending and the priorities for spending in Russia. Nature of the spending there.
Grouped Articles
Putin Pledges Stimulus for Russian Economy
Wall Street Journal 06/21/2013
Economist 02/03/2009
Russia Girds for Deficit, High Inflation
Wall Street Journal 02/26/2009
In Putin’s Economic Plan, an Emphasis on Spending
New York Times 04/07/2009
Government Spending Is No Free Lunch
Wall Street Journal 01/22/2009
Global Economic Growth post-2008- Inflation, Interest Rates, the Dollar and Exchange Rates
08/15/2005
How all these factors come together for global economic growth, any adjustments, and risks, and different perspectives on achieving the right mix for policies.
Grouped Articles
BusinessWeek 08/15/2005
The Dollar at Home -- and Abroad
Wall Street Journal 04/28/2006
Wall Street Journal 08/30/2006
Wall Street Journal 08/29/2006
Geithner Hints at Harder Line on China Trade
New York Times 01/23/2009
China Rejects Currency Manipulation Charge
New York Times 01/25/2009
Rapid erosion of Sovereign Wealth Funds in 2009
05/09/2006
The rapid erosion of sovereign wealth funds is another aspect of the situation surrounding the present financial crisis in the global economy. From one of many causes, declining oil prices, supporting currencies, supporting local banks, stimulus spending, declining exports, or bad investments in western countries, there has been arapid erosion of Sovereign Wealth Funds.
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Kuwait, Dubai Tackle Their Ills
Wall Street Journal 11/20/2008
Grim Outlook for Japan Economy: Barclays Economist
BusinessWeek 12/01/2008
Oil's Crash Stirs Unrest in Russia as Slump Hits Home
Wall Street Journal 12/19/2008
In Russia, Reserves Gain on Euro Rise
Wall Street Journal 12/25/2008
Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding Reports Big Loss
Wall Street Journal 01/20/2009
Big Mideast Funds Scale Back Investments
Wall Street Journal 01/27/2009
Economic growth and exchange rates for dollar, yen, yuan and euro- policy change in China, Japan and Europe.
08/17/2007
How policy and mood is shifting in China, Japan and Europe for exchange rates between currencies. The desire to be less dependent on exports and increase domestic demand in these countries just as thrifty consumers in the US make earlier policies obsolete.
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Yen's Fall Aids Japan, Worries Others
Wall Street Journal 05/13/2013
Yen Slumps to Six-Month Low Against Dollar
Wall Street Journal 11/27/2013
Japan Faces Uphill Battle in Curbing Yen's Rise
Wall Street Journal 08/04/2010
Brawny Yuan Stands Apart from the Crowd
Wall Street Journal 12/10/2013
Asia Seen as Better Able to Deflect Waves From U.S.
New York Times 08/17/2007
Geithner Hints at Harder Line on China Trade
New York Times 01/23/2009
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