Unlike bitcoin, Tether tokens are backed by reserves of fiat
currency held by the company, Tether Limited.
An expansion of
currency held by the non-bank public is deflationary.
Special drawing rights A special drawing right allows a member country of the IMF to obtain surplus
currency held by another member country.
Money Supply The amount of money in the economy, consisting primarily of currency in circulation plus deposits in banks M - 1 U.S. money supply consisting of
currency held by the public, traveler's checks, checking account funds, NOW and super-NOW accounts, automatic transfer service accounts, and balances in credit unions.
An expansion of
currency held by the non-bank public is deflationary.
Now, the Monetary Base consists of two things:
currency held by the public, and reserves held by banks.
A reserve currency is a foreign
currency held by central banks and other major financial institutions as a means to pay off international debt obligations.
Not exact matches
In
currency markets, the euro
held at two - year highs following remarks
by ECB President Mario Draghi last week, while the dollar remained weak ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting later in the week.
MARKETS: The dollar
held near a four - month high against a basket of major
currencies, buoyed
by the outlook for a strong U.S. economy and rising yields amid signs of slowdown elsewhere, especially in Europe.
Moro said Hong Kong - based Xapo is currently the leading custodian in the digital
currency world, but added that Xapo is limited
by the fact it only
holds bitcoin and not Ethereum or many other newer crypto
currencies.
But whether Bitcoin can actually replace gold (let alone traditional government - backed
currency) has been a matter of fervent debate — quite literally, as evidenced
by an event last week entitled «Gold Versus Bitcoin,»
held at a New York comedy club, in which well - known gold proponent (Jim Rickards debated James Altucher, a self - help author now peddling Bitcoin investment advice under the moniker «crypto - genius.»
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven
by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused
by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory
held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign
currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
The trader, who is only known
by his bitcoin address, purchased the coins between Feb. 9 and Feb. 12, hiking his
holdings in the digital
currency to more than 96,000 coins from about 55,000 coins.
Many EM funds also carry
currency risk — that is, the value of their
holdings vary not just
by increasing or decreasing security prices, but
by the value of their
currencies relative to the dollar.
The financial system is in precarious condition barely
held together
by a patchwork of negative interest rates,
currency manipulation, and misguided confidence.
The sectoral results for the 2013 survey indicate that Australia's aggregate net foreign
currency asset position was
held principally
by non-bank private financial corporations (other financial corporations), with non-financial corporations and the public sector (including the Future Fund and the Reserve Bank) also
holding small net foreign
currency asset exposures (Graph 5).
This net position in turn consisted of foreign
currency asset
holdings equivalent to about 20 per cent of GDP, with more than three - quarters of this in the form of equity investment (including direct investment
by multinational companies in their offshore operations).
The sector
held foreign
currency assets equivalent to about 4 per cent of GDP, with the majority of these likely to reflect investments
by the Australian Government's Future Fund.
In sum, the U.S. payments deficit and central bank movements out of the dollar, aggravated
by U.S. military activity in Iraq and other countries, may indeed trigger a shift of international
currency holdings into euros.
The problem is for this or other
currencies to become international reserves
held by foreign central banks, the issuing nation has to run a balance of payments deficit to pump this
currency into the global economy.
Such protectionism leaves little option for China and other countries except to
hold their
currencies stable
by purchasing U.S. and European government bonds.
The share price of Natural Resources, a company with a going concern warning in its financial reports, has risen
by over 3,000 % since the company announced its intention of entering the digital
currency realm and changing its name to Blockchain
Holdings in a report sent to the TASE on October 17.
The Company calculates the impact of
currency on net sales
by holding exchange rates constant at the previous year's exchange rate, with the exception of Venezuela following the Company's June 28, 2015
currency devaluation, for which the Company calculates the previous year's results using the current year's exchange rate.
The futures are designed to reflect the price of bitcoin without an investor having to physically
hold the virtual
currency, not unlike how oil, gold, copper or cocoa prices are determined
by futures contracts.
Negative Feedback Loops «The steepness of the yield curve
holds a long - standing correlation with
currency weakness,» a report
by Bank of America Merrill Lynch global research says.
All
currencies transferred to us
by Members for use with the Exchange are
held in an omnibus client account controlled
by the Exchange.
So, if you are thinking of just buying and
holding, just keep in mind that if your BitCoin or other crypto
currency holder gets hacked, gets shut down
by a greedy or overarching government, or otherwise goes rogue, your investment may suddenly disappear.
The desktop wallet is the most suitable wallet preferred
by the crypto
currency users since it gives complete control to the XRP holders over their
holdings.
Inspired
by the recent initiation of Malta's Virtual
Currency Act, the Malta Blockchain Summit will be
held for the first time this year on the 1st to 2nd November at the Malta InterContinental.
The SNB's «profit was lifted
by a trio of positive forces: Low bond yields preserved the value of its foreign bonds; higher equity prices raised the value of SNB
holdings... and the weaker Swiss
currency made those foreign assets worth more in franc terms.»
Assets likely to be
held by private investors include: cash in bank deposits, securities (such as shares issued
by private companies, and government or corporate bonds), property, insurance policies, foreign
currencies, cars, art and antiques.
That s my best guess as it looks now but all asset classes seemingly are being manipulated from gold to bonds to
currencies to stocks.Which one breaks away from the puppet strings that the Central Banks are
holding on to.Fascinating that the dollar is surging causing gold and commodities money to be diverted to stocks.Is the dollar being purchased
by our Fed?
If you utilize Abra
by holding fiat
currency, ie.
By holding your funds in fiat, you can minimize the volatility of your balance, as fiat
currencies are generally less volatile than cryptocurrencies.
The «hardness» of a
currency, they write, «could be defined as the willingness of international agents to
hold the
currency, as measured
by its actual use in cross border financial positions.»
Many commodity and
currency funds that
hold futures contracts are regulated
by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as commodity pools, but they're classified as LPs for tax purposes
by the IRS.
By default, the Abra wallet will
hold your balance in your local fiat
currency based on the phone number you signed up with.
Asked about cryptocurrencies, European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi commented on 5 February 2018 that bank exposure was not evident: «Let me first say that we are not observing a systemically relevant
holding of digital
currencies by supervised institutions —
by banks, in other words.»
The nouveau logic surrounding this fiat
currency regime states that confidence and trust for a piece of paper backed
by faith will always trump the desire for people to
hold something tangible.
PetroDollars, launched
by New York - based Signal Capital Management, allows individuals and organizations to use a peer - to - peer exchanged digital
currency that's backed
by the value of crude oil and natural gas, announced Monday it will
hold an initial coin offering of up to $ 700 million...
At its simplest a cryptocurrency works
by logging transactions into a database to work out how much of that
currency each individual, or their address, is
holding.
The Bloomberg article posted HERE reports that after a decade - long 5 - times increase, the worldwide stash of foreign
currency reserves
held by central banks has begun to shrink.
They printed a massive amount of Swiss Franc which they've converted to other
currencies which they bought equities and they've done so well so the paper profit 55 billion last year equal to eight percent of their GDPall through the creation of money in order to keep the Swiss Franc weak, which they've managed to weaken against the Euro last year also
by about 10 percent even though the Swiss itself
held against the dollar was a little bit stronger..
Overall CPI inflation was a more modest 1.6 per cent over the year,
held down
by weakness in the prices of internationally tradable goods flowing from the appreciation of the
currency.
From the outset, the cryptocurrency community has
held as a fundamental tenet that cryptocurrencies are inherently superior to fiat
currencies by virtue of the security associated with the technology, the cap on the number of units of
currency to be issued (either immediately or ultimately) and the freedom from meddling regulators, especially central banks.
Cryptocurrency can remedy that
by giving the unbanked and underbanked access to digital
currencies in the form of cryptocurrencies
held on a secure digital wallet.»
It does this
by holding the yuan at a fixed rate compared to a «
currency basket» of which the majority is the dollar.
Such individuals can also act as a living escrow account
by holding a buyer's money until the virtual
currency transaction has been completed.
All fiat
currency or bitcoin sent to or from ITC in New York occurs exclusively through approved customers sending money to be
held by ITC in an insured bank or Bitcoin to be
held by ITC or a withdrawal of that customer money or Bitcoin at the express direction of an existing customer of ITC's New York trust company offices.
Cointelegraph in March reported on some senators who emerged with opinions concerning cryptocurrency and Blockchain following the hearing on digital
currency that was
held by two commissions; the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC).