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World Service,19 Mar 2015,18 mins

Fed Patience and the US Dollar

Business Daily

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The dollar dropped as the US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen indicated her patience with its strength was wearing thin - but what does it mean for the US economy and for currency markets? Manuela Saragosa hears from BBC business correspondent Simon Jack, and from strategist Bill Blain of brokerage Mint Partners. Also, human rights in the tea industry. Humphrey Hawksley travels to Assam in north-east India to see the conditions of workers on tea plantations. And, we hear from Jonathan Exten-Wright, partner at law firm DLA Piper, about the surprising results of a survey of big corporations' attitudes towards human rights.

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