"We should be prepared for the possibility that today might mark the beginning of a change in the currency's fortunes," wrote the columnist Stephen Glover in today's issue of the anti-euro Daily Mail.
They rely more heavily on spending at home or within the euro area, which is faltering; and their limited exports to markets beyond the EU are mostly in commoditised products where competition with low-cost producers is made tougher by a strong currency.The fortunes of the region's big economies are diverging along these lines.
McDonald became a leading business writer in the early postwar era, when serious reporting about big business was gaining currency and Fortune was a newsstand colossus.
Still, the 21st Century produced record setting bull and bear markets in gold, silver, oil and currencies, where fortunes were made and lost.
We also looked at niche creative studios like Staple Design and Surface To Air that have gained currency among the Fortune 500.
However, December has marked a reversal of fortunes for currency and equity markets in Europe, pushing European stocks and the euro in the opposite directions forecast.
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In his best-selling book "The Black Swan" (Random House, 2007), Dr. Taleb, who made a fortune trading currency on Black Monday, argues that finance and history are dominated by rare and unpredictable events.
In the early days, the only thing at stake was a rapper's street credibility, but as Hip Hop gained more currency there was a fortune to be made.
