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In macroeconomics and modern monetary policy, a devaluation is an official lowering of the value of a country's currency within a fixed exchange-rate system, in which a monetary authority formally sets a lower exchange rate of the national currency in relation to a foreign reference currency or currency basket.
Currency depreciation is the loss of value of a country's currency with respect to one or more foreign reference currencies, typically in a floating exchange rate system in which no official currency value is maintained. Currency appreciation in the same context is an increase in the value
The term "currency war" is sometimes used with meanings that are not related to competitive devaluation. In the 2007 book, Currency Wars by Chinese economist Song Hongbing, the term is sometimes used in a somewhat contrary sense, to refer to an alleged practice where unscrupulous bankers lend to emerging market countries and then speculate ...
What is currency devaluation and why would a country devalue its currency?
Weaker economies: Countries with economic struggles, high inflation, or political instability often experience currency devaluation due to decreased demand from investors seeking stability.
U.S. investors face a huge potential problem in their portfolios: currency risk. Yet many of them never even realize it. With currency ETFs, though, investors now have the power to hedge their ...
Revaluation is a change in a price of a good or product, or especially of a currency, in which case it is specifically an official rise of the value of the currency in relation to a foreign currency in a fixed exchange rate system. In contrast, a devaluation is an official reduction in the value of the currency.
In the first month of 2021, Turkey and Libya dropped off of Hanke’s Inflation Dashboard. Now the Dashboard contains a dozen countries that, by my measure, are realizing annual inflation rates of ...