Sentences with phrase «value the currency against»

1) As Victor mentioned there are inflation statistics covering the last 100 or so years that value the currency against an ever - changing basket of goods.

Not exact matches

More and more, people are judging the value of the products they buy against not one, but two currencies: money, and the effort it's going to take to get the damned things home.

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.

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.

Although Bernanke denies it, the Fed's money - printing naturally depressed the value of the greenback against other important currencies, such as the euro and yen.

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.

«We should be looking to reduce the value of the dollar against other currencies,» he tells Inc. «This would improve the competitive position of U.S. goods and services.»

Thanks to their country's managed currency rates, Venezuelans are now pulling off epic scams as the value of the dollar spikes against the bolivar on the black market, Reuters» Girish Gupta and Andrew Cawthorne report.

The Bank of Canada is not among the nervous nellies fretting about the 8 % increase in the value of the Canadian dollar against the U.S. currency since late January.

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.

In the latest week they reduced the value of their short dollar position against a range of developed and emerging currencies by $ 4.38 billion to $ 23.81 billion.

The value of one bitcoin fluctuates against other currencies in the same way the euro's value fluctuates against the dollar.

While the US dollar's value against other currencies influences the price of oil, the relationship is complicated.

XRP, which is a virtual currency that is traded against the U.S. dollar on cryptocurrency exchanges online, has soared in value to $ 0.20 since the companies entered the options agreement, according to CoinMarketCap.com.

The effect was to depress the value of foreign currencies against the dollar, supporting its exchange rate and hence the U.S. terms of trade.

«The Chinese government is set to announce a revision of its currency policy in the coming days that will allow greater variation in the value of its currency, combined with a small but immediate jump in its value against the dollar, people with knowledge of the consensus emerging in Beijing said Thursday.»

However, fluctuations in the value of the currency against the U.S. dollar could result in loss of principal.

And with the British Pound losing so much value against other currencies, trade among countries will be dramatically affected.

But since bitcoin has become a store of value as a hedge against a falling yuan, the «digital gold» currency could continue on its upwards trajectory.

Both the New York Times and the Financial Times, citing confidential sources, reported today that the Chinese government may announce a significant shift in its currency policy in the coming days, a move that could cause the Chinese yuan to rise in value against the dollar.

The gain or loss is calculated against the market value of the currency when you acquired it (known as your basis).

By storing its surplus export revenues in Treasury bonds, South Korea nudges up the relative value of the dollar against our competitors» currencies, and our trade deficit increases, even though the original transaction had nothing to do with the United States.

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

The question is whether people can value those different currencies against one another in order to determine what their value would be.

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.

The country makes sure that its value against the dollar, or other important currencies, remain the same.

That downward pressure prompted the Swiss National Bank last week to abandon its effort to cap the value of its currency against the euro.

When the dollar rises in value against other currencies, gas prices fall.

It pegs its currency (the yuan), to a targeted value against the dollar.

But the amount going out in the past several weeks was obviously large enough to depress the value of the local currency against the US dollar to which it is pegged under the linked exchange rate system.

According to this theory, if, for example, the U.S. inflation rate is higher than the Canadian inflation rate, then the purchasing power of Americans will erode compared to that of Canadians, and the value of the U.S. dollar against the Canadian dollar will be adjusted in the markets to balance the purchasing power of the two currencies.

In inflation - adjusted terms, the value of the Australian dollar is at a record level against a trade - weighted basket of east Asian currencies, with a number of these currencies having depreciated markedly at the time of the Asian crisis, and again more recently (Graph 69).

With improving employment figures, higher domestic production of commodities and a rise in levels of consumer confidence, the dollar rose in value against major currencies around the world, climbing to $ 1.49 against the pound in the first half of 2015.

(Throughout history, gold has held its value against paper currencies.

This prompted a drop in value for the pound against the US dollar and most other major currencies, with the US dollar experiencing a sharp spike $ 1.36 per pound by January 2009.

Behind its rise is also a desire by global investors to insulate themselves against their own currencies depreciating in value.

It could cause the euro to rise in value against other currencies, potentially hurting exporters, and it could bring higher returns on savings as well as stiffer borrowing costs for indebted governments in the 19 - country eurozone.

He submitted that this singular act will «reduce pressure on naira and eventually increase value of naira against other world major currencies.»

They are also worried that despite the huge crash in value of the Naira against world's major currencies, CBN maintained its official rate at N197 / USD1 thereby creating wider parallel market margin of about 50 per cent, the highest so far in the history of Nigeria's currency market.

We all want stability, which in financial terms means illiquidity [Editor's Note: «Illiquidity» refers to assets not easily transferred to currency, a property that can protect against» volatility» — rapid, radical swings in value].

Accordingly, «standard» came to mean something that was fixed, such as the specific weight for an official coin or the unchanging value of a precious metal against which the value of paper currency could be compared.

The index hedges against fluctuations between the value of the U.S. dollar and the currencies in which the stocks are denominated.

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 times of economic turmoil, gold has always served as a hedge against the decreased value of stocks or currency.

Currency exchange risk: The risk that the value of an investor's domestic currency may drop against the value of the currency in which an investment Currency exchange risk: The risk that the value of an investor's domestic currency may drop against the value of the currency in which an investment currency may drop against the value of the currency in which an investment currency in which an investment is held.

Those fluctuations can clobber a U.S. investor's returns, especially when a currency drops in value against the dollar.

In my opinion, there are three major pros when it comes to gold investment: (1) It is a quality hedge against a down market, (2) it will still have value if paper currency inflates, and (3) there is an apparent upside to its value vs. prior years.

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.

Oil shock: Analysts say the loonie has lost value against the American dollar and a number of other currencies because of the big fall in oil prices, since the commodity is of major importance to the Canadian economy.

If all Eurozone nations collectively give up on the Euro, and it ceases to exist, after a period where national currencies float against the Euro to determine breakup value, that would be a good thing.