Global trade is slowly shifting from dollar dominance. Using local currencies is no longer an economic choice, it is becoming ...

As of this summer, you can be broke in Santa Barbara, California, and still afford organic produce from the farmers’ market. You can be dollar-broke, that is—but if you have enough Santa Barbara ...

LONDON (Reuters) -A weakening U.S. dollar is lifting a long-neglected asset class - emerging market local currency debt - after a more than decade-long drought. Emerging market local - currency bond ...

It is an unspoken rule in the Berkshires: Buy local whenever possible. That principle is at the center of an economic experiment in Western Massachusetts that is putting the power of local, ...

At The Magic Fluke in Sheffield, rows of wooden string instruments line the wall: ukuleles, violins, and a triangular instrument called the fluke. "The look is different, the sound is a little ...

Q1 2026 Management View Julie T. Sweet, CEO & Chairman, opened by highlighting strong quarterly performance, stating, "We are very pleased with our results as we continue executing our strategy to ...

Frontier market issuers have been in the mainstream of hard-currency sovereign debt markets for many years, but most have struggled to build scale and liquidity for their local-currency bonds. The ...

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