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, ...

Think cash is king? Not in some parts of the Hudson Valley, which has its own alternative currency. No, it’s not bitcoin. But the Hudson Valley Current does operate as a type of currency that can be ...

BEIJING, Sept. 13 (China Economic Net) - At the ongoing 2025 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing, local currency settlements were highlighted as an area of growing ...

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 ...

LONDON, June 17 (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 - ...

Learn how currency translation converts foreign subsidiaries' financial results into a parent company's main currency, ...

Currency swaps silently set the stage for a lot of economic activity worldwide. According to the latest reliable data, global daily currency swaps in 2022 was about $400 billion, around 5% of the $8.1 ...

Ben is a credit cards and luxury travel writer, an immigrant with three citizenships and a husband. He speaks English, Spanish and Italian, has a background in linguistics and languages, and travels ...

TENINO, United States, July 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tucked away under lock and key in a former railroad depot turned small-town museum in the U.S. state of Washington, a wooden printing press ...