Currency report: Zoty continues to gain

The z?oty inched higher last week to reach a six-month high against the euro at z?.3.815, while the USD/PLN fell to a 20-month low at z?.2.97.
The z?oty gained clearly against the dollar after the US currency fell sharply on the international market, which tends to support higher-risk emerging-market assets. The dollar lost ground after China’s [...]

Forex and Commodity Market Commentary and Analysis (2 November 2006)

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The euro moved higher vis-? -vis the U.S. dollar today as the single currency tested offers around the US$ 1.2775 level and was supported around the US$ 1.2735 level. Technically, today??™s intraday high was right around the 61.8% retracement of the move from $1.3480 to $1.1640. Traders await the release of tomorrow??™s all-important October non-farm payrolls [...]

Forex – US Dollar: Lack of Data Until Thanksgiving Keeps Carry Trades in Play

FXCM – DAILYFX Fundamentals 11-16-06
By Kathy Lien, Chief Strategist of www.dailyfx.com
??? US Dollar: Lack of Data Until Thanksgiving Keeps Carry Trades in Play??? Signs of Softer Inflation as Consumer Price Growth Slows in the US??? Stronger Data Limits Slide in the British Pound
US Dollar ??“ The US dollar refuses to sell-off, even in the face [...]

Korean Won Headed Up, Despite Unwinding of Carry Trade

The Korean Won is up 32% since March, and 8.2% on the year. At the same time, it is 20% below is 2007 year-end level, as well as 13% weaker than the 2006 average of 955 and 15.5% weaker than the 2007 average.
Focusing only on the Won’s appreciation would probably cause some technical analysts to [...]

ABA Property Tax Deskbook Fifth Edition 1999-2000

  Oregon ChapterFifth Edition (1999-00)
Marilyn J. Harbur, Esq.Peter R. JarvisRobert T. Manicke, Esq.Bart D. Jeffress, Esq.
§ 38-000. INTRODUCTION. Oregon continues to adapt to property tax limitation provisions adopted in 1997 pursuant to Ballot Measure 50. Or Const Art XI, § 11. Measure 50 (a constitutional amendment) and its implementing legislation established a “cut and cap” [...]

Oregon Pollution Control Facility Tax Credits – 2001 Legislative Changes

Prior to changes adopted by the 2001 Oregon legislature, Oregon’s pollution control facility tax credit program allowed a credit against corporation or personal income taxes equal to 50 percent of the cost of the facility for all qualifying facilities. Absent action by the 2001 legislature, the credit program would have sunsetted on December 31, 2001. [...]

Tax and Government Incentives Promoting Sustainable Development in California

Green or sustainable building is the practice of creating healthier and more resource-efficient models of construction, renovation, operation, maintenance, and demolition. Research and experience increasingly demonstrate that when buildings are designed and operated with their life-cycle impacts in mind, they can provide great environmental, economic, and social benefits. Elements of green building include:
Energy efficiency and [...]

Karzai forced to investigate family blood feud after cousin is murdered

When Afghan killers burst into a 12-year-old girl’s bedroom and shot her brother at close range it barely warranted an investigation.
Police said that no one reported the crime. Were it not that the pair were President Karzai’s cousins — and that the murder had all the hallmarks of a revenge killing connected to a Karzai [...]

Back to Falkland Islands to get fighting fit

BRITISH Forces have been taking part in a major warfare exercise in the Falkland Islands, where hundreds of servicemen died during the 1982 conflict.
The Highlanders (4 Scots) joined the Royal Navy and RAF in a two-day operation after an “enemy invasion” on the islands, 8,000 miles from the UK, in the South Atlantic.
Argentina invaded the [...]

Stock Picks: Disney, Jabil Circuit, Liz Claiborne

Walt Disney Co. (DIS)
Standard & Poor’s Equity Research keeps buy
S&P equity analyst Tuna Amobi said in a Dec. 22 note that Disney and CBS Corp. (CBS) could be among the initial content partners for a new online TV subscription service for 2010 launch by Apple Inc. (AAPL), based on an unconfirmed Wall Street Journal story. [...]