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PEG EXCHANGE [4 records]

Record 1 2017-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
  • National and International Economics
DEF

The assets denominated in foreign currency, plus gold, held by a central bank, sometimes for the purpose of intervening in the exchange market to influence or peg the exchange rate.

OBS

international reserve: term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • international reserves

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
  • Économie nationale et internationale
CONT

Les réserves internationales d'un pays se composent des [...] avoirs extérieurs qui sont à la disposition immédiate et sous le contrôle des autorités monétaires et qui leur permettent de financer directement les déséquilibres des paiements, de régulariser indirectement l'ampleur de ces déséquilibres au moyen d'interventions sur le marché des changes [...] et de parer à d'autres besoins[.]

OBS

réserve internationale : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • réserves internationales

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-08-02

English

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

To fix or stabilize the price of something (e.g., stock, currency, commodity) by manipulating or regulating the market.

PHR

Peg a rate to ...

PHR

To peg the exchange rate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
PHR

Arrimer une monnaie.

PHR

Fixer le taux de change d'une monnaie par rapport à une autre.

PHR

Rattacher une monnaie à [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Finanzas
  • Política monetaria y mercado de cambios
CONT

Vincular un tipo de cambio.

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Record 3 2010-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
CONT

Brazil follows a crawling peg system of currency devaluation resulting in frequent changes in its exchange rate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
CONT

Le Brésil applique un système de parité fixe mais ajustable qui entraîne des dévaluations fréquentes de son taux de change.

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
CONT

Pegging the exchange rate to the dollar does not make monetary policy credible, as the resounding disaster in Mexico makes clear.... monetary policy was too loose in 1994 and was inconsistent with the peso pegged at 3. 5 to the dollar. Foreign reserves left the country until the peg had to be abandoned.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes

Spanish

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