World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in English and AMA in French.

ADB Asian Development Bank

APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

BBK Federal Bank

British BOE bank

BOJ bank of Japan

BRC American Retail Association

British Federation of Industry

CFTC Commodity Futures Trading Commission

CIA central intelligence agency

ECB European central bank

European monetary unit

EMU European monetary union

ERM European exchange rate mechanism

Federal Reserve Board of the Federal Reserve System

FOMC Federal Open Market Investigation Committee

G7 USA, Japan, Germany, UK, France, Canada, Italy

G8 G7+ Russia

G 10 Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium +G7

G 1 1 G 10+ Switzerland

Greenwich mean time

IBCA European Credit Rating Agency

IFO commercial climate survey agency

IMF international monetary fund (IMF)

Moody's Moody's Credit Rating Company

OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (or the European Parliament)

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

SNB Swiss National Bank

SEC United States securities and exchange commission