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A widely traded currency pair is the relation of the euro against the US dollar, designated as EUR/USD. The quotation EUR/USD 1.2500 means that one euro is exchanged for 1.2500 US dollars. 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.
According to a Statistics Canada report released in 2017, the purchasing power parity (PPP) for gross domestic income was US$0.84 per Canadian dollar. Comparable items cost one dollar in Canada compared to 84 cents in the United States. Since 1999, the PPP had been "relatively stable". [15]
US Dollar Index and major financial events. The U.S. Dollar Index (USDX, DXY, DX, or, informally, the "Dixie") is an index (or measure) of the value of the United States dollar relative to a basket of foreign currencies, [1] often referred to as a basket of U.S. trade partners' currencies. [2]
The US dollar (DX=F, DX-Y.NYB) on Tuesday traded near the lows it experienced the day prior as investors weighed the latest tariff talk from President Trump. On Monday, the dollar index ...
GBP/USD. 1.2767642-0.02%. USD/JPY. 151.76-0.12% ... Yahoo Finance 9 hours ... Annual inflation in the United States may have ticked up last month in a sign that price increases remain elevated ...
The Canadian dollar is held by many central banks in Central and South America as well. [49] [citation needed] By observing how the Canadian dollar behaves against the U.S. dollar, foreign exchange economists can indirectly observe internal behaviours and patterns in the U.S. economy that could not be seen by direct observation.
The market convention is to quote most exchange rates against the USD with the US dollar as the base currency (e.g. USDJPY, USDCAD, USDCHF). The exceptions are the British pound (GBP), Australian dollar (AUD), the New Zealand dollar (NZD) and the euro (EUR) where the USD is the counter currency (e.g. GBPUSD, AUDUSD, NZDUSD, EURUSD).
The United States is by far Canada's largest trading partner, with more than $1.7 billion CAD in trade per day in 2005. [150] In 2009, 73% of Canada's exports went to the United States, and 63% of Canada's imports were from the United States. [151] Trade with Canada makes up 23% of the United States' exports and 17% of its imports. [152]