Sentences with phrase «percent against the currencies»

Apart from slowing global demand, export growth is seen crimped by a strong dollar, which so far this year has strengthened by about 4 percent against the currencies of the country's main trading partners.

Apart from slowing global demand, exports are seen crimped by a strong dollar, which so far this year has strengthened by about 4 percent against the currencies of the country's main trading partners.

Not exact matches

Elsewhere, the dollar held at a three - month high against a basket of currencies, after having received a boost from U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields holding near the key 3 percent level.

The common currency was 0.6 percent lower against the U.S. dollar at 12:30 p.m. London time Monday as traders worried over an independence vote in Spain.

For foreigners investing in Japanese stocks, the yen also poses a challenge, analysts said, with the rapid depreciation in the currency — which has fallen 14 percent against the U.S. dollar in the past three months - mitigating gains in the market.

Their declining currencies against the dollar (8 - 9 percent over the past 12 months), falling stock market values since the beginning of the year and high (India) and rising (Brazil) bond yields are reflecting their funding difficulties.

Since the election, the dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, has risen 3.6 percent.

Japan's trade balance for February, which was released on Thursday, is a reflection of the less favorable implications of a rapidly depreciating currency, which has fallen over 22 percent against the greenback in the past six months.

Elsewhere, the going remains tough for GSK's business, with the full - year earnings hit from currency moves now seen at 8 percent, against 6 percent previously.

Meanwhile its currency, the ringgit, has hit levels seen since the 1998 Asian Financial Crisis and lost as much as 28 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar from the beginning of the year through the end of September.

The common currency was up 0.45 percent against the greenback.

The dollar index rose 0.8 percent for the week, with the dollar rising against most currencies.

The dollar was under pressure, with the index down by 0.64 percent around Europe's close, against a basket of foreign currencies.

The greenback is up 4.5 percent year to date against a basket of currencies, and up 3 percent over the past month.

The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six rival currencies, was down 0.48 percent at 91.89, after falling to a nearly one - week low 91.808.

The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of global currencies, is up more than 7 percent over the past year.

Renewed confidence in the European economy and persistent weakness in the dollar have driven the euro up 16 percent against the U.S. currency from the first quarter last year to the end of March 2018.

After a two - day rally, the offshore renminbi rose as much as 2.5 percent, to 6.7853 against the dollar on Thursday, an exceptional gain for a currency that is usually subject to staid trading.

In April however the single currency has fallen rapidly to a four - month low against the dollar, with the greenback buoyed by the U.S. Treasury yields topping three percent and expectations the Federal Reserve will further raise interest rates.

Canada's currency reversed declines after the release, trading 0.3 percent higher at C$ 1.3192 against its U.S. counterpart at 8:46 a.m. Toronto time.

The currency, the world's worst performer against the euro in the past month with a 4.2 percent decline, reached a record - low 324.24 on Jan. 5.

Even though the dollar has raced to 14 - year highs against a basket of currencies in the wake of the Fed meeting, only a slim majority - 52 percent of poll participants who expressed a view - thought the euro / dollar exchange rate would break below parity in 2017.

The currency is one of the few to have appreciated against the US dollar over the past five years (up 6 percent as of last Thursday), Thomson Reuters data show.

Sterling rose on Wednesday, extending gains from earlier in the day as better - than - expected construction PMI data calmed investors after a selloff that took the currency five percent lower against the dollar in two weeks.

Measured against a basket of currencies, it has gained about 17.5 percent in value since the inauguration, more than any other major currency.

Previously, the central bank assigned a value to the currency each morning, allowing its value against the dollar to rise or fall by a maximum of 2 percent.

For the first time in the history of virtual currencies, bitcoin's total percentage of market capitalization against these other coins has dropped below 50 percent.

By the end of the session, it was trading 0.4 percent higher against Japan's currency at 106.65 yen.

Against the pound sterling, the US currency dropped more than one percent to end the session at 1.4139.

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..

China's currency has appreciated 25 - 30 percent against most major currencies over the last eight years.

That may have risen to 49 billion ringgit after factoring in a 31 percent fall in the ringgit against the dollar, the currency in which more than half the debt was held, a Breakingviews calculation suggests.

Europe's currency also dropped 0.3 percent against the yen to 103.25.

Investors around the world were taken by surprise on Tuesday after the People's Bank of China (PBoC) devalued the yuan by almost 2 percent against the U.S. dollar, causing the currency to suffer its biggest fall in over two decades.

A few dollar - denominated commodities moved higher on Friday in response to a weaker U.S. Dollar, a drop in U.S. Treasury yields and softer - than - expected U.S. economic data.The dollar was pressured against a basket of currencies after the initial reading on first - quarter gross domestic product came in at 2.3 percent.

The dollar was marked lower against the euro and the yen, falling 1 percent against the European currency.

With the weakening of the lira against the dollar, the private sector will have a harder time repaying its foreign currency - denominated debt, S&P said, adding this would negatively impact government debt — 40 percent of which is denominated in foreign currency.

Section of Ghanaians are beginning to question government's assurance to address these age long challenges in the short to medium term after the cedi, which was relatively stable against major currencies the whole of last year; has depreciated by 6 percent in the last two months with dumsor also rearing its ugly head.

This term means the capital issues in which the par value and size of percents are expressed in US dollars, and the amount of paying off the liabilities is recounted against the exchange rate of the USD to another foreign currency.

Yes, it is getting killed and declining like it was going out of fashion, but would you rather bet on something that has fallen around 70 % against other currencies since 2000, or one that has gone up a few hundread percent?

With the dollar predicted to drop in value by up to 10 percent against other reserve currencies in 2018, Nduom is keen on advocating for a new reserve asset for African central banks.

«We have all these currencies since Bretton Woods, fluctuating against each other, and maybe the dollar hasn't gone to zero against these currencies but all of them have gone down 95 percent... versus something that they can't control like... gold and Bitcoin.

Bitcoin core (BTC) trades against BCH is the most prominent currency pair today as the currency captures 54 percent of exchanges.

Bitcoin trading against the Chinese currency has dwindled to 19 percent of total volume in the past six months, from about 90 percent last year, according to digital currency data website Bitcoinity.

«Both the increase in U.S. home prices — up 6 percent in March 2016 compared to one year ago — and the depreciating value of foreign currencies against the U.S. dollar made buying property a lot pricier last year,» says Yun.