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CURRENCY MARKET [1 record]

Record 1 2005-01-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

A market where foreign currencies are traded, and the daily or spot and future prices of currencies are decided.

CONT

Recent turmoil in the Southeast Asian currency markets, as well as the earlier Mexican crisis and collapse of the European exchange rate mechanism in 1992-93, has heightened interest in the causes and symptoms of currency crises.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Marché, au comptant ou à terme, de devises qui sont généralement cotées par rapport à la monnaie nationale.

Key term(s)
  • marché de change
  • marché des devises étrangères
  • marché des changes étrangers

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Política monetaria y mercado de cambios
  • Comercio exterior
DEF

Conjunto de operaciones con monedas extranjeras que determinan los precios diarios de una moneda en función de otras.

CONT

Las recientes conmociones de los mercados cambiarios de Asia sudoriental, el desencadenamiento de la crisis de México y el colapso del mecanismo europeo de ajuste de cambios en 1992-93 han despertado un mayor interés en las causas y los síntomas de las crisis cambiarias.

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