Sentences with phrase «less than currency»

Bonds prices fluctuate less than currency movements, so if you don't use hedging you will actually increase the volatility of your portfolio without increasing your expected return.

«If currency in a bank is worth less than currency in your hands or in a mattress, that could produce something in the way of behavior that nobody has ever anticipated.»

Not exact matches

Thomas added that Ripple's own digital currency, known as XRP, is less vulnerable to forks or unpredictable changes because, unlike bitcoin, it relies on voting measures that favor users more than miners.

Something a bit less sexy than its flashy name suggests: it's the set of regulations that will govern digital currency businesses operating in New York State.

Both come with exchange risks, but U.S. dollar bonds are usually less volatile than those denominated in local currency, says Lian.

«Gold today is nothing more or less than a commodity, and we could have a debate whether it's a commodity or a currency without an interest rate,» Watt continues.

Over a decade ago, when government deficits led The Wall Street Journal to list Canada an «honorary member of the Third World,» more than a few observers insisted our currency was destined to be worth less than half a U.S. buck.

An oddity outside China's borders less than a decade ago, the renminbi (which translates as «the People's currency») is quickly becoming one of the world's most commonly used forms of payment.

LONDON, April 24 - Less than two weeks after the latest round of U.S. sanctions plunged Russia's rouble to 16 - month lows, some global funds have already stepped back in to buy rouble - denominated sovereign bonds and take advantage of the weaker currency.

In the summer of 2016, Ripple's former CEO Chris Larsen made a fateful decision: he signed a deal with a bank consortium R3, that included an option for its partner to buy 5 billion units of its currency for less than a penny.

The currency is worth about 20 % less against the U.S. dollar than it was in 2014, and money never has been cheaper.

(Indeed, the popular sound bite outside of bitcoin lately is that the currency is less important than the underlying blockchain technology behind it.)

The value of Bitcoin spiked along with the currency's hype — rocketing from less than $ 1 in 2011 to nearly $ 1,000 in 2013.

While not all bets have paid off — his global macro strategy suffered amid currency volatility in 2014 — Shiff says he ends up losing less in down markets than pure equity managers do.

As for the notion that the big payment processors may fear cryptocurrencies as potential competitors, this could become an issue if and when cryptocurrencies recover from their current crash and settle into a less volatile pattern that encourages their use as virtual currency rather than as speculative assets.

Our goal was nothing less than to replace the U.S. dollar by creating a new digital currency.

A Chinese currency devaluation is less of a concern than a Chinese slowdown, with real GDP forecast to be down 0.2 percentage points.

This is a far less volatile way of doing things than using exchange rates: for example, the price of a hamburger doesn't jump 27 % simply because of currency fluctuations.

Popular interest in digital currencies has taken off in the last several months, helping send bitcoin from less than $ 1,000 at the beginning of 2017 to a high above $ 19,000 in mid-December.

Between January and November 2013, the value of Bitcoin shot up from less than $ 15 to nearly $ 1,000, according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin price index, which aggregates pricing data from some of the largest digital - currency exchanges.

(ii) whose income in the preceding 12 months is not less than S$ 300,000 (or its equivalent in a foreign currency) or such other amount as the Exchange and the Book Depository may prescribe in place of the first amount;

Because most wealthy Chinese seem to think about RMB in terms of USD or Hong Kong dollars, it is the fear that any depreciation of the RMB against those two currencies (the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the USD through a modified currency board) greater than the couple of percentage points interest rate differential would yield less than equivalent USD or Hong Kong dollar bonds.

Those countries with less - developed institutions and financial systems, limited policy credibility, greater foreign currency debt and / or more precarious economic situations are certainly more exposed than others to external shocks.

At dispute is an alleged deficit that amounts to less than two per cent of $ 630 billion (U.S.) in annual Canada-U.S. trade, and the final result can be made or broken by a small shift in energy prices and currency values.

Let's think worst case — should the currency collapse in your home country... and should a bank run ensue... and should the government mandate that all banks then close for no less than a week... and should subsequent food shortages take place... and should no clean water be available... and should the electricity and heat not work... and should violent protests, riots, and widespread looting erupt...

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A currency - hedged take on German equities, the iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Germany ETF (HEWG D - 42), helps tell that tale, with gains of 15.4 percent in less than twocurrency - hedged take on German equities, the iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Germany ETF (HEWG D - 42), helps tell that tale, with gains of 15.4 percent in less than twoCurrency Hedged MSCI Germany ETF (HEWG D - 42), helps tell that tale, with gains of 15.4 percent in less than two months.

With the exception of limited places (less than 5 % of business), these currencies are worthless.

To make the claim that cryptocurrency is more stable than traditionally capitalistic currency would be absurd, but cryptocurrency is definitively less susceptible to the same problems that make our currency as unstable as it is.

Several waves of media coverage between April and June pushed the currency's value up from less than $ 1 to more than $ 30.

Most EME currencies also fell against the dollar, with the currencies of commodity importers depreciating less than those of commodity exporters (Graph 7, bottom right - hand panel).

There were 425 cases of illegal online transfers of fiat currencies, which is less than 1/4 of the amount noted by the NPA in 2014.

Whenever the CPI show lower than expected figures, then inflation drops and the ECB is forced to cut interest rates, which makes the European currency less attractive and the EUR / JPY pair may drop.

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Conversely, the Iveco segment performed better than we anticipated, as revenue declined less than our forecasts (and gained 9 % in constant currency) while margins expanded.

For all asset classes (but focusing on currencies), they define bad market conditions as months when the excess return on the broad value - weighted U.S. stock market is less than 1.0 standard deviation below its sample period average.

The cryptocurrency market started of the week on a relatively calm note, with most major currencies moving less than 3 percent on Monday.

In a report the bank assigned a 25 % probability to a near - term (less than six months) currency devaluation change, increasing to 40 % if oil stays at current levels throughout 2016, rising to 60 % if oil stays sub - $ 50 per barrel for the next two years.

Coming to the most popular cryptocurrency: bitcoin, the virtual currency, was launched following the global financial crisis in 2009 for less than a dollar.

Virtual currency, an industry that is less than 10 years old, is a dynamic sector with a lot of technological change taking place.

He also noted that numerous alternative digital currencies or altcoins, although currently worth a lot less than Bitcoin, could handle transactions in a less energy - intensive way.

By holding your funds in fiat, you can minimize the volatility of your balance, as fiat currencies are generally less volatile than cryptocurrencies.

Investing in currency involves additional special risks such as credit, interest rate fluctuations, derivative investment risk, and domestic and foreign inflation rates, which can be volatile and may be less liquid than other securities and more sensitive to the effect of varied economic conditions.

An appreciation of the exchange rate means that: the increase in the domestic currency price of commodity exports will be less than the increase in world commodity prices; the income of the other tradable sector will fall; and real income gains flow to the broader economy via the associated decline in the price of imports.

That action for foreign currency rigging came less than two years after the bank was charged with two felony counts and given a deferred prosecution agreement for aiding and abetting Bernie Madoff in the largest Ponzi fraud in history.

This process will surely be available at a cost that will be less than half of the existing costs incurred in transferring currencies.

While Bitcoin is legal essentially everywhere, some countries are less friendly towards the digital currency than others.

While it was more volatile in the 1980s than the major currencies such as the US dollar, yen and Deutsche Mark, in the nineties it has generally been less volatile than they have.

● Foreign investments may be more volatile and less liquid than U.S. investments and are subject to the risk of currency fluctuations and adverse political and economic developments.

Most currency pairs move less than one cent per day, representing a less than 1 % change in the value of the currency.