"The current euro-dollar rate is more of a reason to be happy than concerned, " he said.
Only one bank, Goldman Sachs, expects the euro-dollar rate to rise above parity within the next 12 months.
This might suggest that the yen-dollar rate has already overshot.
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The dollar rate is fixed each day by taking estimates from a panel, currently comprising 18 banks, of what they think they would have to pay to borrow if they needed money.
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He is reported to have raised the question of the euro-dollar exchange rate with Mr Bush.
The euro-U.S. dollar exchange rate slid 0.3% to 1.3118 while gold firmed 0.9% to 1, 714 per ounce.
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We are evaluating ways to potentially mitigate the impact of any further weakening in the yen-to-dollar exchange rate.
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The long-term chart of the euro-dollar exchange rate shows a series of lower highs since 2007 (line c).
We see a rising probability of pressure on the renminbi-to-the-dollar exchange rate in the second half of next year.
However, the Americans, at the other end of the yen-dollar exchange rate, do not necessarily see things this way.
Gold prices surged starting March 15, as the Cypriot banking crisis was erupting, as the euro-dollar exchange rate broke down.
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Whether its computers, drugs, even farm equipment or soda water, your revenue line gets squeezed 3% or 4% by the dollar exchange rate.
The dollar Libor rate rose sharply above 5.0% after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in October before moving sideways in late November and steadily declining ever since.
Lately, many have been fixated on the recent weakness in the yen, as the dollar-yen rate has recently risen from around 75.5 yen to the dollar to 93.5.
Conservatively speaking, then, it appears that over the past couple of years, the real exchange rate of the yuan, deflated by unit labor costs, has been appreciating against the dollar at a rate of something like 15 percent per year.
What the IMF was supposed to do was strictly this: provide loans to countries whose currencies were having trouble staying at a fixed rate of exchange to the dollar, so that that rate would be maintained.
Even with global risk sentiment becoming less of an issue, dollar and yen rate differentials are expected to favor the greenback.
Of course, as daunting as that nearly trillion-dollar annual interest rate expense will become, it could be much greater if rates do in fact rise.
This year has been no exception, with the dollar-yen rate barely moving.
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The solution the president favours is fixing the value of the rupiah to the dollar at a rate of 5, 000-5, 500 by means of a currency board, as in Hong Kong or Argentina.
Two other bank bosses have waived their bonuses this year follow scandals: Antony Jenkins following Barclays' admission of its involvement in rigging the multi-trillion-dollar Libor interest rate and Royal Bank of Scotland's Stephen Hester after a massive computer failure caused payments into customers' accounts to be delayed by several days.
The crises of the 1990s did, however, tend to have one thing in common: they all had some kind of fixed exchange rate, often a fixed peg or link to another currency, usually the dollar, or an exchange-rate band, again usually linked to the dollar.
These central banks have agreed to lower the pricing on the existing temporary U.S. dollar liquidity swap arrangements by 50 basis points so that the new rate will be the U.S. dollar overnight index swap (OIS) rate plus 50 basis points.
The CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Trust ( FXA) tracks the exchange rate of the Australian dollar and currently yields 3.1%.
And they almost never note that the statutory tax rate applies only to the last dollar earned or that the effective tax rate is substantially lower even for the richest taxpayers and largest corporations because of tax exclusions, deductions, credits and the 15 percent top rate on dividends and capital gains.
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Our index suggests that a fair-value rate would be 3.54 yuan to the dollar, compared with the current rate of 6.78.
Ben Bernanke has no choice but to engineer an interest rate spike to dampen inflationary fires and rescue the dollar, taking the Fed funds rate up to a Volkeresque 18%.
The recent action was to extend their maturity (to February 1, 2013) and lower the rate from the U.S. dollar OIS (overnight index swap) rate plus one percent to plus one-half percent.
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