Sentences with phrase «low value of their currency»

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

«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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.»

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.

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 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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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.

Still, Ehrsam sought to position Ethereum as moving the development of «digital currency» and its technology forward, emphasizing that Coinbase intends to support both protocols, and that it sees them growing together to become «low - level protocols» in what could be a new Internet for value exchange.

As there are not many arguments why Bitcoin is a better store of value or unit of account than fiat currencies like euros or dollars, it is obvious that as a method of payment Bitcoin is superior to fiat currencies, due to lower costs, nearly perfect divisibility and social inclusion to name but a few.

The most reasonable explanation for why the Ethereum currency dropped from a high of $ 311.46 on Monday to a low of $ 238.65 is that a market correction is taking place for the out of control values of digital currencies.

Alternatively, increase in Bitcoin price may cause the hash rate of other virtual currencies to fall, decreasing their transaction verification efficiency and lowering their value.

Ease of access to various types of currency, near - instant transfer of value and low transaction fees are a must for any experienced currency trader out there.

While first met with a fair amount of enthusiasm and interest, the currency has since dropped and held at very low values only around a dollar each.

While a money transfer between two parties in different African nations routinely costs more than 10 percent of the transaction's value, and central bankers are sometimes not resistant to the temptation to print more money, Bitcoin has extremely low costs as a payment settlement network and has a monetary policy that is essentially controlled by the users of the digital currency.

But the bet laid down by bitcoin cash supporters is that the value proposition of a rarely traded and expensive digital gold is lower than a widely - used money that maintains enough of the properties of a blockchain - based currency.

There are a lot of merchants out there already accepting Bitcoin payments, but until potential customers can easily acquire digital currency, the transaction value will remain lower than it could be.