Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CURRENCY BOARD - Entity charged with maintaining the value of a local currency with respect to some oth...
  
  
• CURRENCY CALL OPTION - Contract that gives the holder the right to purchase a specific currency at a sp...
  
  
• CURRENCY CARRY TRADE - A carry trade where you borrow and pay interest in order to buy something else t...
  
  
• CURRENCY DEPRECIATION - A decline in the value of one currency relative to another currency. Depreciati...
  
  
• CURRENCY DEVALUATION - A deliberate downward adjustment in the official exchange rates established, or ...
  
  
• CURRENCY DIVERSIFICATION - Using more than one currency as an investing or financing strategy. Exposure...
  
  
• CURRENCY EXCHANGE RISK - Uncertainty about the rate at which revenues or costs denominated in one curre...
  
  
• CURRENCY FLUCTUATION - A currency has value, or worth, in relation to other currencies. For example, if...
  
  
• CURRENCY FUTURE - A financial future contract for the delivery of a specified foreign currency.
  
  
• CURRENCY FUTURES CONTRACT - Contract specifying a standard volume of a particular currency to be exchan...