reserve currency
noun[CorU]
FINANCEukusaparticularcurrencythat isheldby manycountrieswho use it to makepaymentsto othercountries:
Thedollariseffectivelythereservecurrencyof theworld.
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But incurring such payment deficits also meant that, over time, the deficits would erode confidence in the dollar as thereservecurrencycreated instability.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As areservecurrencyit is roughly 0.1% of the currency composition of official foreign exchange reserves.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A gold exchange standard is a mixture of areservecurrencystandard and a gold standard.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The possibility of the euro's becoming the first internationalreservecurrencyis now widely debated among economists.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In this report, the current issues with having a national globalreservecurrencyare addressed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is the currency most used in international transactions and is the world's most dominantreservecurrency.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Since its launch the euro has become the secondreservecurrencyin the world with a quarter of foreign exchanges reserves being in euro.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.While the euro has made substantial progress, a few challenges undermine the ascension of the euro as a majorreservecurrency.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.By the mid 1930s, many governments introduced tariffs and autarkic policies and the pound sterling lost its dominance as areservecurrency.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This can take a relatively long time, as recognition is important in determining areservecurrency.
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