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The Moroccan dirham (Arabic: درهم, romanized: dirham, Moroccan Arabic: درهم, romanized: derhem; sign: DH; code: MAD) is the official monetary currency of Morocco. It is issued by the Bank Al-Maghrib, the central bank of Morocco. One Moroccan dirham is subdivided into 100 santimat (singular: santim; Arabic: سنتيم).
The company was conceived as DBC Online by Data Broadcasting Corporation in the fall of 1995. [2] The marketwatch.com domain name was registered on July 30, 1997. [3] The website launched on October 30, 1997, as a 50/50 joint venture between DBC and CBS News, then run by Larry Kramer [2] and co-founder and chairman, Derek Reisfield. [4]
The rial was introduced when Morocco adopted a modern style coinage in 1882. It replaced a system consisting of copper falus , silver dirham and gold benduqi . In Spanish Morocco , the rial was replaced by the Spanish peseta in 1912 at a rate of 1 rial = 5 pesetas.
The dirham was a unit of mass used across North Africa, the Middle East, Persia and Ifat; later known as Adal, with varying values. The value of Islamic dirham was 14 qirat. 10 dirham equals 7 mithqal (2.975 gm of silver). In the late Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish: درهم), the standard dirham was 3.207 g; [1] 400 dirhem equal one oka.
Currency substitution is the use of a foreign currency in parallel to or instead of a domestic currency. [1]Currency substitution can be full or partial. Full currency substitution can occur after a major economic crisis, such as in Ecuador, El Salvador, and Zimbabwe.
The Casablanca Stock Exchange (Arabic: بورصة الدار البيضاء; French: La Bourse de Casablanca) is a stock exchange in Casablanca, Morocco.The Casablanca Stock Exchange (CSE), which achieves one of the best performances in the region of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), is Africa's third largest stock market after Johannesburg Stock Exchange (South Africa) and Nigerian ...
The economy of Morocco is considered relatively liberal, governed by the law of supply and demand. Since 1993, in line with many Western world changes, Morocco has followed a policy of privatisation. [19] Morocco has become a major player in African economic affairs, [20] and is the 6th largest African economy by GDP (PPP).
However, since the 2020 economic crisis in Lebanon, exchange at this rate was generally unavailable, and an informal currency market developed with much higher exchange rates. [5] On 1 February 2023, the Central Bank reset the currency peg at LL 15,000 per US dollar. [6] By mid-March 2023, the "parallel market" rate had fallen to LL 100,000 per ...