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But the rise of technology has led to an evolved "black market" -- and rather than exotic animals and tangible exports, data like credit card information and even streaming accounts are up for grabs.
Some currencies, such as the North Korean won, the Transnistrian ruble, and the Cuban national peso, are officially nonconvertible and can only be exchanged on the black market. If an official exchange rate is set, its value on the black market is often lower. [2] Convertibility controls may be introduced as part of an overall monetary policy.
A black market in Shinbashi in 1946 Illegal street traders in Barcelona in 2015. A black market [a] is a clandestine market or series of transactions that has some aspect of illegality, or is not compliant with an institutional set of rules. If the rule defines the set of goods and services whose production and distribution are prohibited or ...
A well-known purchasing power adjustment is the Geary–Khamis dollar (the GK dollar or international dollar). The World Bank's World Development Indicators 2005 estimated that in 2003, one Geary–Khamis dollar was equivalent to about 1.8 Chinese yuan by purchasing power parity [ 4 ] —considerably different from the nominal exchange rate.
The war in Ukraine has deepened Egypt’s economic woes. It sent the import-reliant nation's bill for wheat and oil soaring and with it the need for dollars, and crushed tourism from two of its ...
The economy of Egypt is the second-largest economy in Africa, and 39th in worldwide ranking as of 2024. Egypt is a major emerging market economy and a member of the African Union, BRICS, and a signatory to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The country is witnessing a period of economic recovery after facing serious financial ...
The $100 bills spirited out of the bank weighed nearly 200 pounds in total and required four men to cart it all away, the Post report said. The CIA had received intelligence that El-Sisi had been ...
EGX 30, [1] previously named CASE 30 Index, is a stock market index for securities in Egypt, designed and calculated by EGX. EGX started disseminating its index on 2 February 2003 via data vendors, its publications, web site, newspapers etc. The start date of the index was on 2/1/1998 with a base value of 1000 points.