After many years in which the US consistently pushed China to move in the direction of a market-determined exchange rate, the Trump Administration is now pushing China to effectively fix its exchange ...

Discover how a nation's balance of payments can affect its currency's exchange rate and the dynamics of its relationship in ...

The U.S.-China trade war and anti-Beijing protests in Hong Kong are testing the strength of the Hong Kong dollar’s 36-year peg to the U.S. dollar, which has helped make it an attractive market for ...

THE European money crisis only dramatized what many experts have long regarded as an unassailable dictum: the free world’s monetary system is overdue for an overhaul. That system—the internationally ...

Today’s economic reality includes a world of free-floating fiat currencies, where the value of a nation’s currency is determined by supply and demand in the global foreign exchange or forex market.

One of the landmark developments influencing financial markets in the post-war era occurred 50 years ago, when the international monetary system shifted from a fixed to a floating exchange-rate regime ...

Put simply, exchange rates compare the value of one currency to another. They measure how much of one currency it takes to purchase a unit of another. Exchange rates are ultimately determined in ...

In 1871-73, newly unified Germany adopted the gold standard, replacing the silver-based currencies that had been prevalent in most German states until then. The reform sparked a series of steps in ...

The foreign exchange rate, often abbreviated as “forex” or “F.X.,” is a fundamental concept in international finance and trade. It plays a pivotal role in the global economy and impacts individuals, ...

“Managing the dollar is the most important job no one in Washington is doing these days,” Joseph Sternberg laments (“Foreign Exchange, the Job the Federal Reserve Won’t Do,” Political Economics, June ...