Shearing
Americannoun
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People were outside milking cows and shearing sheep, and planting seeds in their gardens.
From Literature
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Still, currency movements are “influenced by a shifting mix of economics, politics, market positioning and fiscal and monetary policies, and the relative importance of each can change abruptly,” Capital Economics Group Chief Economist Neil Shearing writes, cautioning investors against getting too bearish on the dollar.
From Barron's
For now, however, no credible alternatives—including China’s currency—exist, Shearing writes, meaning the dollar is unlikely to be dislodged in the near term.
From Barron's
“These dependencies around technology, around security, around finance and the dollar, that’s the glue that’s now keeping together the Western bloc,” said Neil Shearing, chief economist at Capital Economics in London.
Leaders in Europe and Canada point to new alliances among middle powers as a way to break the dependency, but those partnerships would likely still lean heavily on the U.S. for defense, finance and access to advanced technologies, Shearing said.
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