Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• 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...
  
  
• CURRENCY HEDGE - Applies mainly to international equities. Hedging technique to guard against foreign e...
  
  
• CURRENCY OPTION - A contract that gives the holder the right to buy (call) or sell (put) a specific amo...
  
  
• CURRENCY OVERVALUATION - Applies mainly to international equities: (1) consideration that a currency is...
  
  
• CURRENCY PUT OPTION - Contract that gives the holder the right to sell a particular currency at a speci...