The sight of presents I bought two days ago now marked down by 50 per cent (as the high street stretches the concept of "January Sale" yet further) is infuriating and for the few items I weakened about and purchased from Amazon I have received 37 (37!) emails detailing their dispatch and delivery.
The yen has weakened about 20 percent over the past 12 months, providing a boost to exporters by making their goods less expensive for purchasers abroad.
In a little more than 15 months, the euro has weakened about 20percentt against the dollar and 25percentt against the Japanese yen, as the 11-nation euro zone economy has not picked up as quickly as some investors had anticipated.
Seth, 41, looks like a zootier version of the fedora-wearing protagonist of his novel "It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken," about a young man obsessed with old New Yorker cartoons.
Hours after the IMF cut its forecasts for the world economy this year and next, PricewaterhouseCoopers released a survey showing 30% of business leaders expected the expansion to weaken, about six times as many as a year ago.
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The euro has weakened by about 10% against the dollar since the beginning of 2010.
The pound also weakened by about 0.6% against the euro to €1.15.
The hurricane was now a category one storm, with winds weakening to about 75 mph (120 kph) and was centred about 50 miles (80km) south-southwest of Zacatecas, Mexico.
In the past few days Carlos Fábrega, the head of the BCRA, has allowed the peso to start weakening, by about 0.5%.
