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Foreign governments hold reserve currency in their central banks to help reduce the risk of exchange rate fluctuations. A reserve currency is also used to price commodities that all economies need, ...

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Currency devaluation refers to the deliberate reduction in the value of a country's currency relative to other currencies. This economic policy is often used by governments to address trade imbalances ...

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Currency risk refers to the potential for gains or losses resulting from the fluctuations between various currencies. Currency risk can affect everyone from multinational companies to governments, to ...

China’s renminbi is lagging the currencies of key trading partners, making Chinese goods and services cheap and helping to ...

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The official currency of Switzerland is the Swiss franc. It is widely recognised by its code CHF, which stands for Confoederatio Helvetica Franc (Latin for Swiss Confederation Franc). Unlike most of ...