Currency

•  Reserve currency

  A reserve currency, or anchor currency, is a currency which is held in significant quantities by many governments and institutions as part of their foreign exchange reserves. It also tends to be the international pricing currency for products traded on a global market, such as oil, gold, etc. This permits the issuing country to purchase the commodities at a marginally lower rate than other nations, which must exchange their currency with each purchase and pay a transaction cost.

  

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•  Exchange rate

  Taxa de câmbio é o preço de uma unidade monetária de uma moeda em unidades monetárias de outra moeda. A taxa de câmbio pode ser definida em termos directos (ao incerto) ou em termos indirectos (ao certo). A taxa de câmbio está definida em termos directos quando exprime o preço de uma unidade monetária estrangeira em unidades monetárias de moeda nacional .

  

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•  Dollarization

  Dollarization occurs when the inhabitants of a country use foreign currency in parallel to or instead of the domestic currency. The term is not only applied to usage of the United States dollar, but generally to the use of any foreign currency as the national currency. Official dollarization has gained prominence as several countries have considered and implemented it as official policy.

  

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•  Plaza Accord

  The Plaza Accord or Plaza Agreement was an agreement between the governments of France, West Germany, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, to depreciate the U.S. dollar in relation to the Japanese yen and German Deutsche Mark by intervening in currency markets. The five governments signed the accord on September 22, 1985 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The exchange rate value of the dollar versus the yen declined by 51% from 1985 to 1987.

  

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•  Bretton Woods system

  The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial and financial relations among the world's major industrial states in the mid 20th century. The Bretton Woods system was the first example of a fully negotiated monetary order intended to govern monetary relations among independent nation-states.

  

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•  Dollar hegemony

  Dollar hegemony is the hypothesized monetary hegemony of the US dollar in the global economy. Henry C.K. Liu popularized the term in a widely circulated and quoted article "Dollar Hegemony has to go" in Asia Times, April 11, 2002. The article was quoted by William Clark in January 2003, Immanuel Wallerstein of the Fernand Braudel Center on June 1, 2003, Greg Moses, James Robertson in April 2004 and subsequently by many others.

  

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•  Foreign exchange market

  The foreign exchange market (forex, FX, or currency market) is a worldwide decentralized over-the-counter financial market for the trading of currencies. Financial centers around the world function as anchors of trading between a wide range of different types of buyers and sellers around the clock, with the exception of weekends. The purpose of the foreign exchange market 'Forex' is to assist international trade and investment.

  

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•  Foreign exchange spot trading

  Foreign exchange spot trading is buying one currency with a different currency for immediate delivery, rather than for future delivery. The standard settlement timeframe for Foreign Exchange Spot trades is T+2 days; i.e. , 2 days from the date of trade execution. A notable exception is the USD/CAD currency pair which settles T+1.

  

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•  Currency future

  A currency future, also FX future or foreign exchange future, is a futures contract to exchange one currency for another at a specified date in the future at a price that is fixed on the purchase date; see Foreign exchange derivative. Typically, one of the currencies is the US dollar. The price of a future is then in terms of US dollars per unit of other currency. This can be different from the standard way of quoting in the spot foreign exchange markets.

  

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•  Foreign exchange reserves

  Foreign exchange reserves (also called Forex reserves) in a strict sense are only the foreign currency deposits and bonds held by central banks and monetary authorities. However, the term in popular usage commonly includes foreign exchange and gold, SDRs and IMF reserve positions. This broader figure is more readily available, but it is more accurately termed official international reserves or international reserves.

  

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•  Alcestis (play)

  Alcestis is an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. It was first produced at the City Dionysia festival in 438 BC. Euripides presented it as the final part of a tetralogy of unconnected plays in the competition of tragedies, for which he won second prize; this arrangement was exceptional, as the fourth part was normally a satyr play. Its ambiguous, tragicomic tone—which could be "cheerfully romantic" or "bitterly ironic"—has earned it the label of "problem play.

  

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•  CIN CW

  WKRC-DT2 is the CW-affiliated television station for the Tri-State area of Southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Southeastern Indiana. It is a second digital subchannel of CBS affiliate WKRC-TV that is owned by Newport Television. Over-the-air, the station broadcasts a digital signal on VHF channel 12.2 from WKRC's transmitter in the Mount Auburn section of Cincinnati.

  

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•  Fuhroter Veltliner

  

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•  New Rose Hotel (1998 film)

  

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