Stablecoin transactions are now a fifth of all cryptocurrency transactions, and they make it easier to transact in US ...

Since the currency crises of the 1990s, economists have devoted a great deal of effort to empirical and theoretical studies of exchange rate regimes in developing countries. The initial consensus that ...

In January 2015, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) unexpectedly abandoned the Swiss franc’s exchange-rate peg to the Euro. The currency had, until then, been set at 1.20 francs to a Euro.

As an investor, I believe the dollar peg eliminates one of the most significant risks in investment: currency volatility. For a financial hub such as Hong Kong, where capital flows freely ...

Could we be in the midst of a shift to a "multipolar" world with a much less dominant dollar? If so, it could drive gold even ...

Mumbai/New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is expected to continue defending the rupee, with the government expressing ...

The basic decisions that need to be made when a country establishes a currency board arrangement include choosing the peg or anchor currency, setting the level of the peg, and determining whether or ...

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That’s something China does. We don’t do those kinds of things. We don’t manipulate our currency. All we do is ordinary monetary policy.’ But the consequence of ordinary monetary policy is ...