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Dariusz Kowalczyk, Senior Economist and Strategist at Credit Agricole, explains why U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew may not succeed in persuading Beijing to let the yuan appreciate. more...

Julian Callow, chief international economist at Barclays, highlights that India remains "very sensitive" to Fed action and that a Fed announcement is "critical" for the rupee and the Reserve Bank of India. more...

Thorsten Polleit, chief economist at Degussa Goldhandel, says some countries in peripheral Europe are reliant on currency fluctuations. more...

Central banks' policy of printing money to try and stimulate weak economies is unlikely to result in significantly higher inflation, Rob Carnell, chief international economist at ING, wrote in a market note. more...

Mateusz Szczurek, CEE chief economist at ING, told CNBC that the Polish central bank had justified its decision to prop-up the zloty on the grounds that it needed to "punish speculators". more...

The euro zone will be in a recession before the end of the year, an economist from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) told CNBC Monday. more...

After a weekend of talks at the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting in Washington over how best to deal with the euro zone debt crisis, we appear no closer to a resolution. more...

"Inflation in UK will drop next year and growth prospects remain low ,"Chris Scicluna, deputy head of economic research at Daiwa Capital Markets, told CNBC. more...

UBS' top European economist issued a note on Monday saying the euro should not exist "under the current structure and with the current membership, the Euro does not work." more...

"My favourite candidate [to replace Naoto Kan as Prime Minister] is Yoshiko Noda, the finance minister, but as to who is most likely, that is still very hard to tell," Takuji Okubo, chief Japan economist at Societe Generale, told CNBC. more...

"I think there has been a downshift in expectations of economic growth, so I would be a little more defensive, thinking about companies that actually pay dividends, and have a record of earnings. I would emphasise the multinationals overall, and I would look at high grade corporate bonds as an...

"I think the markets will test the resolve of the Euro zone politicians. It is a game of cat and mouse, and unless the markets push the politicians, they do not do anything. I think we are going to enter our third wave of selling," Chris Watling, chief executive at Longview Economics, told CNBC...

Standard & Poor's downgrade of the US' credit rating from AAA* on Friday, was "absurd", Richard Portes, professor of economics at the London Business School, told CNBC Monday. more...

The economy is in big trouble, and the world’s central banks may be running out of ways of turning it around, according to Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics. more...

So markets finally have a deal on the US debt ceiling, and it has been passed by the House of Representatives, but was all the fighting over how to cut spending really worth it? more...

A new government is in place in Portugal, tasked with tackling the problems facing one of the sick men of Europe. Unfortunately, new faces in government do not in any way change the problems being faced by a country, according to one analyst. more...

Despite weak economic data a double dip recession is unlikely and investors should favor stocks over bonds, according to Chris Watling, the CEO of Longview Economics in London. more...