(Down!) Until the Fed moves decisively to raise interest rates, anything Bernanke (or Geithner) says about the dollar is merely "cheap talk," which the markets will discount, as well they should.
On Monday the Bank of Japan met to set monetary policy in the world's second-largest economy, amid hopes that last year's disastrous decision to raise interest rates would be decisively reversed.
President Barack Obama, who won November's presidential election decisively, campaigned for raising tax rates on the wealthy, individuals making more than $200,000, and couples making more than $250,000.
That could involve requiring some banks to raise additional capital and more decisively clean-up their balance sheets, or "restructuring and resolution where viable business models cannot be established".
Investors are concerned that the committee may signal that it will raise interest rates before the economy has decisively improved.
Some years ago, it appeared that the RSPO would simply need to raise its sustainability standards to resolve the matter decisively.
"This emergency budget deals decisively with our country's record debt," Osborne said, as he revealed plans to raise an additional £32bn from spending cuts – including an £11bn trimming of the welfare bill – and £8bn in tax increases.
Still, it does not decisively remove the threat that the nation's AAA credit rating could be downgraded, an action that would raise borrowing costs across the board, and the prospect of further cuts ahead will cut short any celebrating.
Emerging from his Mercedes coupe, he speaks decisively but quietly, as if raising his voice would signal a loss of authority.
Plus, of course, Swann has blighted the last six years of Panesar's career, not just taking his place in the team, but raising the bar decisively, offering attack, defence, slip-catching and runs too, striding out to bat like a very clever and funny pantomime pirate who turns out to be surprisingly good at swishing his cardboard cutlass about.
