This has put immense pressure on Venezuela s dollar pegged currency, the bolívar.

The local currency is the Falkland Islands pound, which is pegged to the British pound sterling.

China has essentially pegged its currency to the dollar, while most other currencies fluctuate more or less freely.

In the 1990 s, Argentina tied its hands with a dollar pegged currency in order to enhance its credibility as a borrower.

The formerly pegged currency was forced into a floating system as investors sold their Korunas faster than the government could buy them.

Although the role of monetary policy in demand management is limited when a national currency is pegged to a currency such as the dollar, its indirect effect of creating healthy domestic demand could be observed in 2004.

In this context, the decision to retain the CFA franc, a freely convertible common currency that is pegged to the euro at a significantly overvalued exchange rate, is dubious.

The British may turn their nose up at the euro to which even the supposedly independent Swiss franc is pegged but it will almost certainly remain the currency of nearly 300 million Europeans.

Moreover, the Lebanese pound is pegged to the US dollar.

MUNICH Because China has pegged its undervalued currency, the renminbi, to the dollar, every weakening of the dollar in the wake of America s financial crisis has also meant a weakening of the renminbi vis à vis other world currencies. But is China really to blame for the eruption of a global currency war?

MUNICH Because China has pegged its undervalued currency, the renminbi, to the dollar, every weakening of the dollar in the wake of America s financial crisis has also meant a weakening of the renminbi vis à vis other world currencies.

These are high prices for China to pay to maintain its current policies, including the pegged exchange rate.

We wanted to get a temperature probe, we stuck it in there, looked at it it pegged off scale.

The South Korean won was initially pegged to the U.S. dollar at a rate of 15 won 1 dollar.

At the time, the Indian rupee was pegged to the British pound at a rate of 13⅓ rupees 1 pound.

For example, bondholders could be encouraged to exchange existing bonds for GDP linked bonds, which offer payouts pegged to future economic growth.

The CFA franc s fixed exchange rate is pegged to the euro and overvalued in order to shield French companies from euro depreciation.

Pegged exchange rates clearly have been essential to East Asia s economic takeoff, for they work well with the region s export oriented development model.

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currency units, a.k.a.

Currency exchange rate

Currency exchange rate

(c) Currency adjustment

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The Cayman Islands Dollar (currency code KYD ) is the currency of the Cayman Islands.

The implication is that the dollar, the euro, and the renminbi will share the roles of invoicing currency, settlement currency, and reserve currency in coming years.

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(d) Currency exchange adjustments

(f) Currency exchange adjustment

It is down by nearly 5 since the beginning of 2011, matching the lowest level plumbed since the Bretton Woods System of pegged exchange rates collapsed in 1973.

The same applies to extensive government borrowing from abroad, to currency boards, even to currency unions.

Since the amount of foreign reserves available to defend a weak currency (a currency in low demand) is limited, a currency crisis or devaluation could be the end result.

The currency peg has also helped make the euro into an important reserve currency, rivaling the dollar.

Maintaining a two tier currency system and an undervalued currency has been the key to China s success.

While the Panel finds that these losses are compensable in principle, the Panel notes that currency losses generally, and particularly currency losses relating to Iraqi dinars, are particularly difficult to verify. Ownership of currency is generally proven through possession of the currency.

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