He owns a workshop as a metal turner and his business is affected by the rate of exchange of the US dollar, which has fluctuated a lot recently.
Fourth, the fantastic costs associated with the Vietnam War created huge inflationary pressures which drove down the value of USDs as compared with gold (even at the fixed rate of exchange).
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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.
"Every airline is a country that gets to establish the value of their currency, and some provide a better rate of exchange than others, " said Mr. Sorensen, whose firm has been tracking airline seat availability for the past three years.
This promise can be verified every minute of the day by observing the current rate of exchange between the dollar and gold, and, under a classical gold standard, by exchanging currency at a national bank for gold coins of a fixed weight and purity.
By the end of next year, the exchange rate of the yuan to the dollar should be in the neighborhood of 6.1 to 1.
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.
Another was to use foreign currency: the bank could lend, or accept a bill of exchange, in one currency and collect its debt in another, building a hidden rate of interest into the exchange rate.
After watching the currency free-fall for several days, the Central Bank of Iceland stepped in Tuesday to fix the exchange rate of the krona at 175 a level equal to 131 krona against the euro.
Like any fixed exchange-rate system, a currency board offers the prospect of a stable exchange rate, which can promote both trade and investment.
This necessitated the introduction of the schilling in the next year at an exchange rate of 10, 000 kronen to one schilling.
The country's National Confederation of Industry (CNI) has expressed concern at the current exchange rate of about 1.70 reais to the dollar and has called on Ms Rousseff to bring it down to somewhere between 2.00 and 2.20.
So it seems likely that a good portion of newly printed euros will go abroad, conveniently driving down the exchange rate of the euro.
Holders of precious metals or other major tradable (fungible) assets worldwide need to monitor the foreign exchange rate of the currency in which their asset is held.
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After all, the pound has spent the past ten months above its old central rate in the European exchange-rate mechanism of DM2.95.
The three key elements of this policy remained the adoption of a floating exchange rate system, the anchoring of monetary policy to the inflation target and the acceleration of banking sector reforms, he said.
The gold standard had many flaws, but the chief virtue of fixing the exchange rate and constraining the supply of credit was to stop politicians succumbing to the inevitable pressure to respond to crises by debauching the currency, resulting in long-term harm to the livelihoods and living standards of their citizens.
"Whether intended or not, one consequence could be the increased politicisation of the exchange rate, " he said, according to a text of his speech provided by the Bundesbank.
The long-term chart of the euro-dollar exchange rate shows a series of lower highs since 2007 (line c).
One is the rigidity of its exchange-rate peg, and the strength of the dollar.
The new exchange rate of 6.3 bolivars to 1 dollar goes into effect Wednesday.
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Much talk will also focus on making the IMF a more effective overseer of exchange rate regimes.
The reported figures have been converted to USD using the 2010 exchange rate of 1.5524 provided by the company.
The CurrencyShares Australian Dollar Trust ( FXA) tracks the exchange rate of the Australian dollar and currently yields 3.1%.
Rather than being a safe place to keep money, the exchange rate of Bitcoins relative to other global currencies has fluctuated wildly.
If a central bank buys foreign currency to hold down the exchange rate of the domestic currency, it creates more domestic money.
Venezuela has a fixed official exchange rate of 2.15 to the dollar.
But dollar savings are being converted at an exchange rate of 1.4 pesos to the dollar, and will then be indexed to inflation.
This loss includes an impact from the fluctuation of exchange rate.
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Ecuador dollarized its currency, pegging the exchange rate of its peso to the dollar, and Panama has used the dollar alongside its own currency for decades.
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