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  2. Floating exchange rate - Wikipedia

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    A free floating exchange rate increases foreign exchange volatility. Some economists believe that this could cause serious problems, especially in developing economies. Those economies have a financial sector with one or more of following conditions: high liability dollarization; financial fragility; strong balance sheet effects

  3. Managed float regime - Wikipedia

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    A managed float regime, also known as a dirty float, is a type of exchange rate regime where a currency's value is allowed to fluctuate in response to foreign-exchange market mechanisms (i.e., supply and demand), but the central bank or monetary authority of the country intervenes occasionally to stabilize or steer the currency's value in a particular direction.

  4. List of countries by exchange rate regime - Wikipedia

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    De facto exchange-rate arrangements in 2022 as classified by the International Monetary Fund. Floating ( floating and free floating ) Soft pegs ( conventional peg , stabilized arrangement , crawling peg , crawl-like arrangement , pegged exchange rate within horizontal bands )

  5. How are currency exchange rates determined? - AOL

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    An exchange rate is how much of a given nation’s currency you can buy with a different nation’s currency. If you purchase foreign goods or travel abroad, you may need to convert your currency ...

  6. Exchange rate - Wikipedia

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    In many countries there is a distinction between the official exchange rate for permitted transactions within the country, and a parallel exchange rate (or black market, grey, unregulated, unofficial, etc. exchange rate) that responds to excess demand for foreign currency at the official exchange rate.

  7. Foreign exchange market - Wikipedia

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    The foreign exchange market (forex, FX (pronounced "fix"), or currency market) is a global decentralized or over-the-counter (OTC) market for the trading of currencies. This market determines foreign exchange rates for every currency. It includes all aspects of buying, selling and exchanging currencies at current or determined prices.

  8. Currency intervention - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, in September 2011, the SNB influenced the foreign exchange market again, and set a minimum exchange rate target of SFr 1.2 to the Euro. On January 15, 2015, the SNB suddenly announced that it would no longer hold the Swiss Franc at the fixed exchange rate with the euro it had set in 2011.

  9. Basis swap - Wikipedia

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    A basis swap functions as a floating-floating interest rate swap under which the floating rate payments are referenced to different bases. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The existence of a basis arises from demand and supply imbalances and where, for example, a basis is due for a borrower seeking dollars, this is indicative of a synthetic dollar interest rate in ...