Led by the Saudis in the main but also joined by the other oil-soaked Persian Gulf regimes, the Shariah-inspired jihadists learned quickly that Western financial institutions and their professional lackeys in the legal and accounting fields would do anything for that next billion dollar transaction.
With a higher dollar value transaction for these imported raw materials, this makes the value of imports that much greater and further increases the trade imbalance.
In ten years Visa's dollar volume and transaction volume is up fivefold.
The transaction fee (also known as the discount fee) is the commission charged to merchants as a percentage of the dollar value of transaction on American Express cards.
Thanks to the dollar's stability, liquidity and low transaction costs, the U.S. has an edge in attracting capital inflows to finance the current account deficit.
One big credit-card company we work with does nearly 35 percent of its annual dollar volume and 20 percent of its total transaction volume this time of year.
In this way, a fiat dollar adds risk, and thereby cost, to every transaction.
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Increased transaction volumes will subsequently lead to higher gross dollar volumes.
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But if you want to log your victory in a financially meaningful way, you can put an extra dollar toward your debt or savings on that day and log that transaction in the Money Center.
The dollar is now trading at BRL1.64, just days after the government raised the financial transaction taxes on foreign banks taking out loans overseas and bringing in dollars to the country.
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On 6 September, following the transaction, the SNB intervened to reduce the value of the Swiss franc, making the dollar stronger.
Our central bank has not fully grasped that the dollar is now an international currency, with more than 60% of that now in circulation being used as transaction money outside our borders.
Fourth, transaction costs are lower because the need for each trading partner to purchase a common currency such as the dollar or the euro is eliminated.
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