The bank's comments come amid heightened global sensitivity about Chin's exchange rate, in particular.
This is not the first time Isis have used children in their videos to heighten global fear.
But the Olympics will heighten global scrutiny of Japan's containment and cleanup efforts at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, about 155 miles north of Tokyo.
There could be greater pressure in the future on the currency from heightened global aversion, so it would be suicidal to squander reserves.
Their policies were followed by slower growth and heightened global instability, and what growth did occur benefited mostly those at the top.
Both companies have large nuclear-related businesses and appear to be eager to speak about endgame possibilities for a crisis that has heightened global public mistrust of nuclear power.
Although Susana Siekavizza, executive director of Grepalma, the local industry association, said that Guatemalan palm is currently exported for cooking oil, the high prices that it commands reflect heightened global demand for a crop also used in biofuel.
Hedge funds, Japanese pension funds and bond investors, put off by low yields, have been buying gold amid heightened global uncertainty, according to John Mulligan, the industry body's head of member and market relations.
Now, with the recent announcements of pension freezes by some of the cream of corporate America -- Verizon, Lockheed Martin, Motorola and I.B.M. -- the bell is tolling even louder, and strong, stable companies with the means to operate a pension plan are facing longer lifespans, looming regulatory and accounting changes and, most important, heightened global competition.
