Sentences with word «franc»

The word "franc" typically refers to a unit of currency that is used in some countries. Full definition
The SNB had installed that floor in 2011 and communicated to the markets that it will sell Swiss franc in unlimited quantities to ensure the value of the currency didn't appreciate beyond 1.2 against the euro.
GENEVA — Russian billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich has appeared in a Swiss court as part of a 19 - year - old legal case aimed to wrest 46 million Swiss francs in debts allegedly owed by him and others to a European bank.
Their caution reflected the heavy costs of Napoléon's previous quest for glory: more than 900,000 French soldiers dead, and a depleted national treasury now saddled with millions of francs of reparations due the Allies.
The broker markup for a stock trade in Swiss Francs for this client will be 25 % of the Interactive Brokers commission + 1CFH.
Bowers noticed that in Cabernet Sauvignon, the 30 sequences were the same as in two common cultivars, the white grape Sauvignon blanc and the red grape Cabernet franc.
The last currency to stop using the gold standard was the Swiss franc on May 1st, 2000.
I then watched another accept thick stacks of CFA francs from a government official in exchange for her name.
UBS also said on Monday that it would increase its dividend for investors to 0.65 Swiss francs per share — an 8 percent jump from last year.
Firmenich had an annual turnover of 2.89 billion Swiss Francs at end June 2013.
Some of this differential is because of the dollar to French franc exchange rate.
First, by announcing the Ethereum Foundation's launch of a stablecoin called World Trade Francs (WTF), and second by creating Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 960 for a hardcap.
Announced in May, the program lets citizens pay for government services of up to 200 Swiss francs with bitcoin.
As of the recent quarter end, we increased the Fund's Australian dollar hedge to 37 %, and have 47 % of the Norwegian krone and 34 % of the Swiss franc exposures hedged.
In fact, the Swiss franc rose 1 percent against the dollar on Wednesday morning, as investors looked for safe options after North Korea said it was «carefully examining» a plan to strike Guam, where a U.S. military base is located.
Coming home drunk on another occasion, he demanded 200 francs from his mother and attacked her with a saber when she didn't deliver.
The Belgian - French bank is being sued by some French local authorities after loans pegged to the strong Swiss franc soared in cost.
As the outlook for the euro has darkened, the cost for the Swiss central bank of defending its policy by buying euros or selling francs has risen.
In the case of insolvency of the Depository or JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., the U.S. bank of which the Depository is a branch, a liquidator may seek to freeze access to the Swiss Francs held in all accounts by the Depository, including the Deposit Accounts.
The exchange of Swiss Francs into bitcoins is equated to the exchange of Swiss Franc into any other fiat currency like Euro.
We understand that on 29th March 2013, Mr. Ona Essangui was sentenced to six months» suspended imprisonment and a fine of five million Central African francs by a Gabonese court, for an alleged case of defamation.
That's up from 1,000 CFA francs last season.
US 10 - year Treasury note yields dipped briefly to 2.08 % while safe - haven currencies like the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc also rallied.
Practice makes perfect: but perfection still hadn't quite been achieved when, a fortnight ago, the whole organisation was held to ransom for two million French francs after some 1200 electronic components that are indispensable to the running of its particle accelerators were removed and hidden.
He even managed to convince them to return 50 artworks including masterpieces by Max Beckmann and Otto Dix, which he claimed to have «obtained lawfully» — the reality was that he paid a few Francs for each work of art.
The most heavily traded forex pairs are: EUR / USD, USD / JPY, GBP / USD, and USD / CHF, which are the euro, Japanese yen, British pound, and Swiss franc rates versus the US dollar.
In response, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) has tried to intervene multiple times in the currency market to keep the value of the Swiss franc low.
A TV programme earlier this month told viewers repeatedly that 1 - franc condoms have made it cheap to practise safe sex.
Over the long term, these fluctuations will smooth out and of course as an dividend growth investor in the accumulation phase, a strong Swiss franc towards other currencies is a real blessing (see also The day when my portfolio dropped by 15 %).
Credit Suisse posted a 983 million franc loss for 2017.
My portfolio has done pretty well so far and my dividend income for December 2016 (net dividend payments received in Swiss Francs which trades more less at parity to the USD) increased year to date by around 2o % due to the acquisition of HSBC stocks, organic dividend increases and dividend reinvestments.
In addition to the approximately 2 million Swiss francs worth of assets that the regulatory body has already managed to recover or block, it anticipates potentially seizing more after the conclusion of these proceedings.
At that time, the EUR / Swiss franc exchange rate was 1.4, today it stands below 1.1.
It has not yet decided whether to buy second - hand watches for cash, added the firm, saying its sales had come close to the 1 billion Swiss franc mark last year.
HNA Group wants to gobble up Swiss airline caterer Gategroup for 1.7 bln Swiss francs including debt.
An Airbitz user can now buy bitcoin with their euros or Swiss francs through Bity, then send those bitcoins to family or to a friend in the United States and that person can quickly sell the bitcoin for dollars through Glidera.
As a result, firms will be allowed to accept public funds from more than 20 persons up to 1 million Swiss francs before being classified as a commercial entity, so long as they don't re-invest those deposits.
I think it is true to say that there has not been a lot of unhedged foreign currency borrowing occurring among Australian corporates since the days of the «Swiss franc loans» of the mid-eighties, but I will postpone discussion of that topic until I deal with foreign debt in the second half of this talk.
Served with kicked up scalloped taters and drank a cab franc.
Swiss watches are likely to become even more prized as adjustments in the Australian dollar and Swiss franc raise the price of those and oth...
In January 2013, the bank had 72,000 members and its assets totalled 90 billion Rwandan francs (about $ 145.5 million).
Capital of Comoros: Moroni Population of Comoros: 773,000 Languages in Comoros: Arabic, French, Shikomoro Time in Comoros: GMT +3 International dialling code in Comoros: +269 Voltage in Comoros: 220V 50Hz Visa information for Comoros: Visa information Money in Comoros: Comorian franc (CF) The Euro is the currency on Mayotte, but the other islands generally accept both.
Buy some TIPS too, and maybe some yen [FXY] and swiss francs [FXF].
With haunting simplicity, it portrayed aristocrats in peasant dresses worth no more than 70 old francs (1.5 million euros).
Creates francs to tamp down the currency and buys up euros, dollars, then stocks.
This year we have discussed the success of the SNB of returning the Swiss franc back to the coveted 1.20 PEG RATIO.
Uncertainty surrounding the Italian political situation, however, triggered renewed defensive franc demand on Monday with EUR / CHF near 1.1520 as global equities also retreated.
A benchmark interest rate increase by Japan or Switzerland would reduce the United States» wide rate spread with these countries and consequently lower the risk - adjusted return of holding bearish yen or Swiss franc bets in carry trades.
A few final words about exchange rates during the buildup to the ECB's announcement, namely the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) abandonment of its currency cap on the Swiss franc versus the euro.
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