Better times will emerge, and the real test will be to see if Razen has selected the right basket of companies to lead the market out of its doldrums.
Weeks later, it became known that Mr. Diallo had filed an asylum claim based on utter falsehoods, about how he was from Mauritania, a human-rights basket case.
For many years now, Mr. Mugabe is known primarily for having turned Zimbabwe into a land of hunger — a human-rights basket case as well as an economic disaster.
The I.M.F. is committed to shifting at least 5 percent of its voting powers to its emerging-market members, and the fund's managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, would like to add other currencies to the special drawing rights basket, starting with the renminbi.
Très bien, right?" Mrs. Baskets, whose beady eyes contain multitudes, is already one of my favorite characters in television.
"If you don't have the right picnic basket, you can't fit enough stuff in it," he said.
The governor of China's central bank made a similar proposal in March 2009, arguing that "special drawing rights" -- baskets of currencies issued by the I.M.F. and made up of the euro, yen, pound and dollar that have served as reserve assets -- would be more stable and viable than the dollar.
In October 2015, the IMF officially agreed to include China's currency, the renminbi, into its benchmark Special Drawing Right currency basket.
Analysts say the shareholders in the Washington-based IMF will vote on Monday to include the yuan, also known as the renminbi, as the fifth member of its special drawing rights currency basket alongside the dollar, the Japanese yen, sterling and the euro.
"However, I will tell you he is shooting baskets right now with us, and his shot is as good as ever".
