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  2. Pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    The Falkland Islands pound, Gibraltar pound, and Saint Helena pound are set at a fixed 1:1 exchange rate with the British pound by local governments. Value In 2006, the House of Commons Library published a research paper which included an index of prices for each year between 1750 and 2005, where 1974 was indexed at 100.

  3. Currency pair - Wikipedia

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    Currency quotations use the abbreviations for currencies that are prescribed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in standard ISO 4217.The major currencies and their designation in the foreign exchange market are the US dollar (USD), Euro (EUR), Japanese yen (JPY), British pound (GBP), Australian dollar (AUD), Canadian dollar (CAD), and the Swiss franc (CHF).

  4. Black Wednesday - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Black Wednesday, or the 1992 sterling crisis, was a financial crisis that occurred on 16 September 1992 when the UK Government was forced to withdraw sterling from the (first) European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM I), following a failed attempt to keep its exchange rate above the lower limit required for ERM participation.

  5. 1976 sterling crisis - Wikipedia

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    GBP/USD exchange rate. The 1976 sterling crisis was a currency crisis in the United Kingdom. Inflation (at close to 25% in 1975, causing high bond yields and borrowing costs), a balance-of-payments deficit, a public-spending deficit, and the 1973 oil crisis were contributors.

  6. Exchange rate - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In finance, an exchange rate is the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another currency. [ 1 ] Currencies are most commonly national currencies, but may be sub-national as in the case of Hong Kong or supra-national as in the case of the euro. [ 2 ]

  7. List of circulating currencies - Wikipedia

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    U.S. dollar, the official currency of the United States, the world's dominant reserve currency and the most traded currency globally. Euro, the currency used by the most countries and territories, the second-largest reserve currency and the second-most traded currency. Some currencies, such as the Abkhazian apsar, are not used in day-to-day ...

  8. List of countries by exchange rate regime - Wikipedia

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    Australian dollar as legal tender. Swiss franc as legal tender. Currency board. Toggle Currency board subsection. Singapore dollar as exchange rate anchor. Hong Kong dollar as exchange rate anchor. Conventional peg. Toggle Conventional peg subsection. Indian Rupee as exchange rate anchor.

  9. Plaza Accord - Wikipedia

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    The Plaza Accord was a joint agreement signed on September 22, 1985, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, between France, West Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, to depreciate the U.S. dollar in relation to the French franc, the German Deutsche Mark, the Japanese yen and the British pound sterling by intervening in currency markets.

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