Sentences with phrase «rise as a currency»

Despite all these troubles, and an early association with illegal activities, bitcoin's rise as a currency is unparalleled in human history.

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The dollar, traded against a basket of major currencies, rose as high as 92.566, the highest since Jan. 10, before retracing to 92.454.

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The euro, which in the aftermath of January's meeting rose to a new three - year high, started the year surging against other currencies, including the U.S. dollar, as the region's economy improved and political risks dissipated.

But Canada imports roughly as much as it exports, and most industries are relatively neutral to a rising currency.

Grams, which have a finite supply, will theoretically rise in value as more people use them on the network and as demand for the currency increases.

As for Asia, a sustainable solution to current world problems requires China and other chronic surplus countries to allow their currencies to rise.

Net profit rose 17 percent to 542 million euros ($ 650 million), ahead analysts average forecast of 510 million euros as higher prices helped offset currency headwinds and an increase in marketing spending.

The Japanese currency has been mostly on the rise against the U.S. dollar as investors look for a safe haven amid fears of a global trade war.

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Other currencies which have borne the brunt of the dollar's rally in the last two weeks such as the Australian dollar, Canadian dollar and the Swiss franc stabilised on Wednesday, rising between 0.2 to 0.4 percent.

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NEW YORK, May 2 (Reuters)- The U.S. dollar rose to four - month highs against a basket of major currencies and world stock indexes mostly edged lower on Wednesday as investors awaited the outcome of a Federal Reserve meeting and possible indications on the interest rate outlook.

Beyond the requirements that liquidity and regulators impose on us, we will purchase currency - related securities only if they offer the possibility of unusual gain — either because a particular credit is mispriced, as can occur in periodic junk - bond debacles, or because rates rise to a level that offers the possibility of realizing substantial capital gains on high - grade bonds when rates fall.

NEW YORK, Feb 5 - The dollar rose against a basket of currencies on Monday as the U.S. bond market selloff levelled off after the 10 - year yield hit a four - year peak on worries that the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates faster to counter signs of wage pressure.

LONDON, Oct 31 - The euro rose on Wednesday, lifted as equity market gains helped perceived riskier currencies, and with direction likely to be determined by how Wall Street reopens after storm disruption.

As the price of the currencies rose last year, the groups had incentives to devote ever greater computing resources to their mining efforts.

That means that if the Federal Reserve feels the need to respond to President Donald Trump's new economic policies with higher interest rates, as Chairwoman Janet Yellen again hinted yesterday, there'll be little to stop the dollar rising further against Europe's single currency.

As a prolific exporter of pricey products such as watches and pharmaceuticals, Swiss companies were being harmed by their strong currency (Canadian manufacturers have the same complaint whenever the Canadian dollar rises against the U.S. dollarAs a prolific exporter of pricey products such as watches and pharmaceuticals, Swiss companies were being harmed by their strong currency (Canadian manufacturers have the same complaint whenever the Canadian dollar rises against the U.S. dollaras watches and pharmaceuticals, Swiss companies were being harmed by their strong currency (Canadian manufacturers have the same complaint whenever the Canadian dollar rises against the U.S. dollar).

The rising dollar negatively influences companies that have a huge global presence as they end up trading in a weakened domestic currency.

Stephen Poloz discusses the rise of digital currencies, saying that adoption is «not as simple as it sounds.»

An anonymous respondent commented, «With the rise of bitcoin or other virtual currencies people may switch to these entirely as global currencies, as the dollar and euro may see too many ups and downs.»

When it decides to peg the value of the currency, it has no choice but to accumulate or lose reserves, as the impossible trinity ensures that money supply rises or falls to match supply and demand in the market in which RMB and USD are exchanged.

Once it reaches that level, there is no longer a bias to currency volatility and the RMB is as likely to rise as it is to decline.

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.

Unhedged foreign currency debt, as was prominent in 1997, means that a fall in the currency pushes up debt servicing costs for the government, local corporates and banks, but a rise in interest rates to assist the exchange rate has the same adverse effect.

A number of factors — such as rising US interest rates, the recurrence of big fluctuations in global currencies, and the widening dispersion of equity returns across sectors and regions — may have helped to create an increasingly conducive environment for hedge - fund strategies, which have seen a positive turnaround in performance in recent quarters.

In this period, the dollar's trade - weighted exchange value rose by 2.9 percent, as measured by the Federal Reserve's major currencies index.

«Most people are buying Bitcoin, not because of a belief in its future as a global currency, but because they expect it to rise in value,» a note from economists at Capital Economics said on Wednesday.

The ratings agency Moody's maintained the US's top - notch «Aaa» credit rating Thursday, saying, «The diversity, dynamism, and competitiveness of the US economy, along with the US dollar's status as the preeminent international reserve currency and very large size and depth of the US Treasury market, offset rising fiscal pressures stemming from aging - related entitlement spending, higher debt - service payments, and recent policy actions that will likely reduce future revenues and increase expenditures.»

As virtual currency transactions using cryptocurrency software rise, rules that seek to regulate virtual currency businesses geographically may be difficult to interpret and enforce.

What has once been described as a stagnant, slow and stuck in the middle entity is now rising faster than it has in quite some time, and digital currency enthusiasts are keeping their fingers crossed and hoping things last this way for quite a while.

To some extent, these concerns are allayed by the existence of natural hedges, such as foreign currency export income, although rising US dollar - denominated debt servicing costs at a time of falling US dollar - denominated commodity revenues would obviously be problematic.

As the global economy recovers, pressure is increasing on China to loosen that peg, which nearly all currency experts believe would cause the yuan to rise against the greenback.

Wealthy families are now buying big into Bitcoin as a means to protect their assets from currency controls and rising consumer prices.

WisdomTree's yuan ETF is heating up as investors start making bets China's currency is heading higher against the dollar for all kinds of reasons, the latest a couple of reports suggesting the Chinese government is ready to let its currency start rising again.

Since 2001 the silver and gold markets have gone up substantially as a reaction to the 20 year precious metals bear market from 1980 — 2000, massive increases in military spending, weakening global economies that REQUIRE Quantitative Easing to avoid deflation, the rise of competing currencies that weaken the dollar's trading status, excessive debts in Europe, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and so much more.

The price of Ether, the virtual currency on the Ethereum network, has continued to rise in recent months, but not as fast as Bitcoin.

For developed economies, in other words, significantly higher capital inflows from abroad would either cause savings to decline as the inflows strengthen their currencies and reduce exports — causing either unemployment or consumption to rise — or, if their central banks act to sterilize the inflows, to increase imports by increasing consumer debt.

It started late last week as the price of Litecoin began to rise on the crypto currency exchange Btc - e.

As the fake phony paper currencies seek to buy up assets in a something for nothing scam, prices of everything rise.

U.S. officials demonize countries suffering these dollar inflows as aggressive «currency manipulators» for what Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner calls ««Competitive nonappreciation,» in which countries block their currencies from rising in value.»

If these inflows however are counterbalanced by rising private inflows from Chinese businesses and wealthy individuals taking money out of China, either because of weaker domestic growth prospects of because of rising nervousness and uncertainty, asset prices might not fall as much as we would have expected, but Australia will be caught in a vice a little like that of, for example, Spain, in which export weakness can not be partially counterbalanced by a weaker currency.

Turkey's demand for gold surged by more than a third in the first quarter, as consumers flocked to the precious metal as a protection against a tumbling currency and rising inflation.

The price of bitcoin swung wildly Thursday, rising to more than $ 19,000 only to fall sharply within minutes, as both the euphoria and anxiety surrounding the virtual currency escalated just days before trading in bitcoin futures begins on a major U.S....

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.

Rising crude oil prices over the last two years will further aggravate the trade deficit as the currency is also depreciating, which will add to the import bill.

The future of the US dollar as the global reserve currency is one of the special topics tackled in great detail this year, as is the rise of populist politics, and potential «black swans» or «gray swans», which continue to lurk in the global financial landscape, awaiting discovery by the unwary.

Adoption of virtual currencies by merchants will rise as they realize good savings, and consumers will pick virtual currencies once they see their myriad benefits.

Investors turn to gold for safety when they perceive that risks are rising including financial, economic and currency risks as well as political risks affecting ownership rights such as expropriation, a capital controls and increased taxation.