Sentences with phrase «low value currency»

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The trade deal could also give the U.S. leverage to negotiate an end to currency manipulation, which keeps the value of some U.S. trading partners» currencies artificially low.

Devaluation means a deliberate attempt by a government or central bank to lower the value of its currency in foreign - exchange markets.

As a result, the value of the Russian currency, the ruble, has deteriorated by 30 % against the dollar so far this year, routinely hitting new record lows along the way.

It's not mining or investors that are causing the radical highs and lows in the currency's value, it's the media, he said.

Bitcoin and ethereum — the first and second largest virtual currencies by market value — appeared to recover after Wednesday's lows.

«Based on fundamentals, our currency does not deserve to be this low... over time we believe that the ringgit will come back to reflect its fundamental value.»

So shared Wong's sentiment on apparent ineptitude among Chinese officials, suggesting that the PBoC's decision to fix the yuan lower against the dollar in recent days had given the impression the central would not defend the value of the currency for the time being.

The country's currency slid below 70 U.S. cents last week, causing some to recall early 2002, when Canadian officials were forced to beg international investors to recognize that the inherent value of Canada's currency was greater than 63 US cents, the record low to which it had fallen at the time.

A lower dollar also softens the blow of the commodity crash by increasing the value of sales priced is the U.S. currency.

Higher energy costs are a weight on the economy that may lower currency values.

Conversely, lower energy costs may lift the economy and currency values.

The terms of trade is influenced by the exchange rate because a rise in the value of a country's currency lowers the domestic prices for its imports but does not directly affect the commodities it produces (i.e. its exports).

«When I traveled to Europe, the Euro was at an all - time low so I decided to take advantage of the low value of their currency and was able to buy expensive handbags at a discount.»

Countries will also try to lower the value of their currency.

They do this by lowering interest rates, printing more currency or buying up foreign currency to make its value higher.

That trend won't continue, and it will still be some while before Bitcoin has the kind of low volatility that makes it a reasonable store of value or unit of account for people whose alternatives are the dollar, the Euro, and other major currencies.

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.»

In addition to things like better fraud protection and lower fees, the biggest benefit of digital currency is inherent in its existence — while there are cybersecurity concerns, the value is not tied to the political or economic climate of one nation.

The world's biggest digital currency by market value dropped as much as 9.1 percent to $ 8,238, the lowest price since Feb. 12, as Alphabet Inc.'s Google announced Wednesday that the restriction would be effective in June.

In contrast to the strength in volumes, the value of total imports declined by around 5 per cent over the year to the December quarter, as the currency appreciation has lowered Australian dollar import prices.

-LRB-...) But a new paper by former senior U.S. Federal Reserve economist Joseph Gagnon says currency intervention — when a government forcibly lowers the value of their exchange rate — has an impact on other economies several times larger than originally thought.

The country's central bank has pushed the value of the currency lower for three consecutive days.

When you realize that there are networks out there of users that are very geographically dispersed... and they're doing high - frequency, low - value transactions, using a digital currency for those makes a lot of sense.»

Most airdrops are done when a currency is at a low value in hopes that people will invest.

We know the US President can lower the value of the Dollar, but it's not an easy task when everyone wants a weaker currency.

For cross-sectional portfolios, they rank assets within each class - strategy and form portfolios that are long (short) the equally weighted six assets with the highest (lowest) expected returns, rebalanced daily except for currency carry and value trades.

A major instrument for lowering wages has been depreciating the value of the currency, since this reduced the value of wages without officially reducing them in the local currency.

Central banks control interest rates like a puppet on a string by raising interest rates or buying up bonds to increase the value of their currency, or lowering interest rates and selling bonds to decrease it.

«Credit cards provide a lot of value through initial rewards bonuses and 0 percent financing deals, but they also offer $ 0 fraud liability guarantees, the lowest possible currency conversion rates and even car rental insurance coverage,» said Jill Gonzalez, an analyst with CardHub.com, a credit card information site.

If the dollar gets much lower against the major currencies of our world, I would expect to see some currency intervention to try to raise the value of 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 deep ITM currency option (FX option) where the strike currency has a lower interest rate than the currency to be received will often be exercised early because the time value sacrificed is less valuable than the expected depreciation of the received currency against the strike.

If the Germans had decided to issue bonds to striking workers instead of money, bond prices would have been driven to ridiculously low levels, driving interest rates to extremely high levels, creating an unwillingness to hold currency (which does not bear interest), resulting in a rapid deterioration in the value of money, and hyperinflation just the same.

Due to the low value of Choice Privilege and Hilton HHonors points, it is not immediately useful to move your Amtrak points to either of these currencies — at the end of the day, you'd be loosing, on average, approximately 50 % of your total value.

Any trader who pays enough attention to the state of the financial markets is able to enjoy success by purchasing their chosen currency while it has a low value and then selling it back once its value has risen.

The spreads in Forex trading are also much lower than in the traditional stocks and shares market which results in a smaller difference between the values of currencies while purchasing and selling.

On the other hand, if you sell the base currency and buy the quote currency, where you expect the base currency to fall in value which you can buy back at a lower price, you are said to take a «short» position.

On January 15, 2015, when the Swiss National Bank eliminated its currency's Euro - peg, the value of that currency moved 30 % in minutes, wiping out many currency traders in what were thought to be low - risk arbitrage - like investments.

I wrote about the dynamic of why either of a lower or higher exchange rate would be good for economies in Would dropping the value of its currency be good for an economy?

In the early 2000s, Record championed currency as a separate asset class for its clients to invest in... nothing like the barrow boy approach to FX trading, rather a systematic medium / long - term approach to mining excess returns from currency markets, via the Forward Rate Bias (the tendency of higher interest rate currencies to outperform lower rate currencies — i.e. the carry trade), and other strategies (like value & momentum).

This is one of the reasons why US inflation is so much lower than much of the rest of the world, and the government should be more honest about the value of our currency.

For instance, currency futures typically need a margin that amounts to a low single - digit percentage of the currency contract's value.

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After all, highly valued companies use their stock as currency to buy stocks with lesser valuations, and stocks with low valuations tend to buy back stock or increase dividends.

Many common stocks issued today do not have par values; those that do (usually only in jurisdictions where par values are required by law) have extremely low par values (often the smallest unit of currency in circulation), for example a penny (USD$ 0.01) par value on a stock issued at USD$ 25.00 / share.

But still — having both cards allows these two benefits to stack up and get some pretty good value out of ThankYou points compared to other currencies if you want to limit your cash spending, especially if you can use it on a hotel with low taxes.

«But there are encouraging signs that we are turning a corner in 2017, and whilst growth is more muted, there is definitely an acceptance of the new normal, with a desire to move forward again in a climate of lower - valued currencies, less government spending and lower GDP growth.

I feel I should lower the value of United's currency due to these added restrictions even though I still see myself finding plenty of opportunities to get around 2 cents of value.

While this card will never offer the outsized value possible with transferable currencies, it is useful for redemptions when the cents per point value of other cards would be relatively low.

Neither the shopkeeper nor the customer would know how to correctly price the candy bar at any given time, since the value of the virtual currency undergoes such extreme highs and lows.