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The Canadian dollar (symbol: $; code: CAD; French: dollar canadien) is the currency of Canada.It is abbreviated with the dollar sign $. There is no standard disambiguating form, but the abbreviations Can$, CA$ and C$ are frequently used for distinction from other dollar-denominated currencies (though C$ remains ambiguous with the Nicaraguan córdoba).
A commonly used currency in the Americas is the United States dollar. [1] It is the world's largest reserve currency, [2] the resulting economic value of which benefits the U.S. at over $100 billion annually. [3] However, its position as a reserve currency damages American exporters because this increases the value of the United States dollar.
The U.S. dollar became an important international reserve currency after the First World War, and displaced the pound sterling as the world's primary reserve currency by the Bretton Woods Agreement towards the end of the Second World War. The dollar is the most widely used currency in international transactions, [4] and a free-floating currency.
Davis Dollars Davis, California; Escondido Dollars [3] Escondido, California; Fairbuck Fairfax, California (2011–2016) Humboldt Hours Eureka, California, and Arcata, California; Mendocino SEED Fort Bragg, California; North Fork Shares North Fork, California; San Luis Obispo Hours San Luis Obispo, California; Sand Dollars Bolinas, California
The dollar sign, also known as the peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital S crossed with one or two vertical strokes ($ or depending on typeface), used to indicate the unit of various currencies around the world, including most currencies denominated "dollar" or "peso".
The United States has the largest economy globally and Canada ranks 9th at US$2.015 trillion. [5] The US share of the global market economy estimated at US$79.98 trillion, was c. 25% in 2018, which is down from 35% in 2005. [6] China's global e-commerce market share has grown rapidly from less than 1% in c. 1998 to 42% in 2018.
The modern dollar and peso symbols originated from the mark employed to denote the Spanish dollar, [2] whereas the pound and lira symbols evolved from the letter L (written until the seventeenth century in blackletter type as ) standing for libra, a Roman pound of silver.
The North American Union (NAU) is a theoretical economic and political continental union of Canada, Mexico and the United States, the three largest and most populous countries in North America. The concept is loosely based on the European Union, occasionally including a common currency called the amero or the North American