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The yen (Japanese: 円, symbol: ¥; code: JPY) is the official currency of Japan. It is the third-most traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after the United States dollar and the euro. [2] It is also widely used as a third reserve currency after the US dollar and the euro.
Currency ISO 4217 code Symbol or Abbrev. [2]Proportion of daily volume Change (2019–2022) April 2019 April 2022 U.S. dollar: USD $, US$ 88.3%: 88.5%: 0.2pp Euro
Here, EUR is the base currency and USD is the quote currency (counter currency). This means that 1 Euro can be exchangeable to 1.25 US Dollars. The most traded currency pairs in the world are called the Majors. They involve the currencies euro, US dollar, Japanese yen, pound sterling, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar, and the Swiss franc.
For example, the euro sign € is based on ϵ, an archaic form of the Greek epsilon, to represent Europe; [4] the Indian rupee sign ₹ is a blend of the Latin letter 'R' with the Devanagari letter र ; [5] and the Russian Ruble sign ₽ is based on Р (the Cyrillic capital letter 'er').
The value of SDRs are calculated from a basket determined by the IMF of key international currencies, which as of 2016 consisted of the United States dollar, euro, renminbi, yen, and pound sterling. Ahead of a G20 summit in 2009, China distributed a paper that proposed using SDRs for clearing international payments and eventually as a reserve ...
Euro (EUR) Japanese yen (JPY) New Zealand dollar (NZD) Norwegian krone (NOK) Pound sterling (GBP) Swedish krona (SEK) Swiss franc (CHF) United States dollar (USD) In some banking circles, reference is made to the G11 currencies, which are the G10 currencies plus the Danish krone (DKK).
An example of a currency basket is the European Currency Unit that was used by the European Community member states as the unit of account before being replaced by the euro. [4] Another example is the special drawing rights of the International Monetary Fund. [5] [6] A well-known measure is the U.S. dollar index, which is used by Forex traders.
The Euro Currency Index (ECX, also EURX or EXY) was launched on 13 January 2006 by the New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) and calculated back to 2001. [5] In 2007, the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) based in Atlanta (USA) changed the name of the stock exchange in IntercontinentalExchange [6] The index was a ratio that compared the value of the euro by a currency basket of five currencies: US ...