Sentences with phrase «year against the greenback»
The yuan is up 6.5 percent so far this year against the greenback, and holding onto its erasure of last year's losses.
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The greenback is up 4.5 percent year to date against a basket of currencies, and up 3 percent over the past month.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's hryvnia has dropped nearly 80 percent against the greenback this year, to trade at 15,7085 per $ 1 on Monday, off last month's all - time low of 15,8817, weighed by tensions between government forces and rebels in the country's eastern regions.
The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of global currencies, is up more than 7 percent over the past year.
According to Taylor, all last year BMO was running a $ 1.2 billion short against the Canadian dollar versus the U.S. greenback.
As I said, the greenback's been on the decline for most of the year so far, but it slumped to a 13 - month low against the euro last week following European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi's remark that «monetary accommodation» would continue in the European Union (EU) until at least the end of the year.
Based on the U.S. Dollar Index, the greenback has slid so far this year by 9.4 % against rival currencies.
Europe's common currency rose to two - and - half year highs against the greenback Monday.
With a couple notable exceptions, the consensus on the street appears to be that the single currency will rise to 1.25 or 1.30 against the greenback by the end of the year, supported by accelerating economic growth in the Eurozone and an end to the European Central Bank's (ECB) quantitative easing program.
The greenback, which had been in a bull run against the loonie since the middle of last year, touched nine - month highs of 1.3124 earlier in March.
Over the past 12 - months the Canadian dollar has lost 15 % of its value against the U.S. greenback and today it dipped below the 70 - cent mark for the first time in 13 years.
After years of trading near decade lows, the greenback rocketed 25 % against major world currencies.
In fact, while our dollar has appreciated strongly against the greenback in the past five years, it is trading within a tight range against other major currencies.
Additionally, the Canadian dollar has been exceptionally strong advancing from about 66 cents ten years ago to well over par today against the US greenback.