2016 IB Economics SL

The weakness in the real is causing companies to delay plans, and the market for initial public offerings has been effectively frozen. The country is in political turmoil and president Dilma Rousseff struggles to get a budget through Congress. The real has fallen 33% this year against dollar and this had huge effects on domestic companies. These are talked through this article

The article talks about the huge increases in US's trade deficits. The size of the gap is higher then ever seen before and the increase is huge with a 15.6 percent. The article also talks about China's effect in imports and US currency

AMMAN - Pakistani Ambassador to Jordan Lt. Gen. Shafaat Ullah Shah on Tuesday said his country and the Kingdom can do more to increase the trade balance in a manner that would reflect the excellent ties in other fields.

The Obama Administration originally criticized China on the devaluation of the Yuan, saying that it was undervalued, meaning that China would have gotten a trade advantage over the other countries. China has since allowed others to have more control over the value of the Yuan and therefore the Obama Administration has softened it's criticism.

Great to hear how USA's critics on China's evaluation resulted, maybe that means the United States doesn't want to spark international tension with it's number one country for imports.

Venezuela's central bank has filed suit in the US against a website widely used to track the plummeting black market value of the country's currency. In an unusual complaint filled with images, high-flown language and even links to journalists' personal websites, the bank alleged that managers of the site DolarToday are committing cyberterrorism and sowing economic chaos.

It is interesting how technology can be used for economic terrorism, its a factor that with the development of technology and the furthering of cyber banking systems is only likely to increase.

Nigeria is experiencing currency depreciation, losing the value of it's currency. Its debt will be raised, which is already large due to foreign lending. The loss of value can also be attributed to its central banks deliverate devaluation as a result of trying to set an exchange rate.

This Article talks about the change in Bitcoin prices. The currency has more than doubled its value since January. And is reaching prices of 500 dollars for one bitcoin to which it was equivalent before. It is very interesting to look at the ways a virtual currency is not stable and becomes stronger or weaker.

Difficult economic conditions in some plane-buying markets, but demand in U.S., China, remains resilient. Currency fluctuations have contributed this as well.

The Chinese government hope on securing a place for the yuan in the basket alongside the U.S. dollar, the euro, the British pound and Japanese yen as part of its goal of raising the international profile of the currency. However, this may add a further depreciation pressure on the yuan, complicating Beijing's attempts to hold the currency stable without draining its foreign exchange reserves too rapidly.

Exchange rate movements still have sizable effects on exports and imports, according to new research from the International Monetary Fund.