The yuan should remain in the spotlight this week as the world looks at the expectations that Beijing is ready to increase its interest rate against the dollar by 2% or 3%. Most likely in China are considering a return of their currency as it was between 2005 and 2008, to allow it daily movements within a given band.

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The French have had 30 years of happiness on the real estate market. As explained Nathalie Couleaud and Frederic Delamarre in a study by INSEE, the national economic wealth has increased eightfold between 1978 and 2007. The acceleration of this increase (+10.3% over the last ten years) is especially important in a context of low inflation as we know it since the late 90s. As such the authors highlight the increase "in asset prices that have quadrupled while the general price level of goods and services has been multiplied by three over the same period. It is therefore important not to stir inflation on consumer goods, which is relatively low at present (and used to calculate