(Bloomberg) -- The dollars role in international trade should be reduced by establishing a new currency to protect emerging markets from the confidence game of financial speculation, the United Nations said.
UN countries should agree on the creation of a global reserve bank to issue the currency and to monitor the national exchange rates of its members, the Geneva-based UN Conference on Trade and Development said
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The following is a summary of the main economic events from the Asia-Pacific and European sessions:
*UN Trade and Development Agency proposes setting-up a new world reserve currency based on a basket of global FX mediums.
*Former Feds Greenspan tells audience in Mumbai, India, that U.S. banks need to hold higher capital ratios than they do currently to offset any future crises.
*Gold breaks above the $1000-per-ounce mark for the first time since late February 2009.
*Chinese Finance Ministry says it will sell CNY 6.0 billion in government bonds; they will be issued in Hong Kong on September 28.
*PBOC Vice Governor Su tells audience at a finance conference that the central bank will continue providing appropriately loose monetary policy.
*UK Chancellor Darling tells audience in Cardiff, Wales, that while the government will not back away from cutting public spending, it will properly signal the move to market agents.
*Expansion interview: ECBs Gonzalez-Paramo says markets could be overreacting to the recent global wave of positive economic data; adds that excesses are always bad.
*UK industrial production rises 0.5% month-over-month in July, beating calls for a 0.2% increase and below the previous 0.6% gain; annual production contracts 9.3% compared to forecasts for a 10.1% fall and following the previous 10.7% decline.
*UK manufacturing production surges 0.9% month-over-month in July, beating forecasts for a 0.3% increase and the previous 0.6% gain; annual production declines 10.1% compared to forecasts for an 11.1% decline and after the previous 11.3% fall.
* German trade surplus rises to €13.9 billion in July, despite calls for a decline to €11.3 billion from €12.1 billion; current account surplus falls to €11.0 billion, a smaller drop than forecasts for a contraction to €10.0 billion from €13.5 billion the month prior.
*Swiss unemployment rate rises to 4.0% in August, despite calls for an increase to 4.1% from 3.9% the month prior.
*Japanese Eco Watchers current economic index falls to 41.7 in August, despite calls for an increase to 43.0 from 42.4 the month prior.
*Japanese trade surplus (BOP basis) drops to ¥437.3 billion in July, more than the expected fall to ¥495.1 billion from ¥602.2 billion in June; meanwhile, current account total increases to +¥1265.6 billion in July from +¥1152.5 billion, disappointing the consensus call, however, for a rise to +¥1452.6 billion.
*Australian NAB business conditions index rises to a +4 reading in August from +1 the prior month; meanwhile, business confidence component increases to +18 from +10 in July.
*UK BRC retail sales monitor declines 0.1% in August, worse than the expected flat reading but improving upon the prior 8.1% drop.
*Kraft Foods says it will continue its £10.2 billion ($16.7 billion) hostile bid to acquire Cadbury, after the chocolate maker rejected an offer by the American foods giant; Kraft is offering 300 pence, or slightly more than a quarter-of-a-share in Kraft, for every Cadbury share.
*British regulators fine Barclays £2.45 million ($4.0 million) for failing to provide accurate transactions information.
*Toyota announces it will hire 800 temporary employees in Japan in October due to improving auto sales.
*Taiwans PM Liu resigns due to the controversy over the governments response to the deadly typhoon last month.
*BBC: Reyes Heroles, the head of Mexicos state-owned oil company Pemex, is replaced by Juan Jose Suarez; Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora, integral to the countrys war on drug cartels, also loses his position.
http://www.fxstreet.com/fundamental/market-view/the-overnight-express-north-a...
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The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said in a report published Monday that the U.S. dollar should be replaced as the worlds standard reserve currency, giving rise to a new global currency managed by an as-yet undetermined financial regulatory organization.
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/07/united-nations-calls-for-new-world-cur...
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US citizen calls for the abolishment of the UN.
They don't represent any of us. They are a quasi governmental agency they use as theater to validate the globalist agenda of collectivism, and eugenics.
FreedomsReigning 2 years ago 27
OMG they are pushing faster because everyone is waking up.Here in Ireland yesterday the gov are introducing Carbon Tax.We are all screwed :(
UndefeatedArmy09 2 years ago 19