Savings from not having to convert profits earned in different European currencies or to hedge against currency fluctuations amount to more than 10% of De Kuyper's annual profits.
If there is ever a collapse of the euro, being invested in assets that could be denominated in a German currency would amount to "catastrophe insurance, " said Peter Papadakos, of Green Street Advisors.
You advocate doing away with central banks and limiting currency issuance to the amount of foreign reserves.
The US Federal Reserve has a system to control the amount of currency in circulation.
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More importantly, cash back rewards are actually tied to a real amount of currency.
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In local currency terms, the amount that Indian women spent for their jewelry more than doubled by 101%, he said.
However, a gold standard system can make available any amount of currency, as is appropriate given economic needs and the fixed parity value.
Germany, the Euro Zone strongman, is borrowing just like the other constituent states making up those sharing the common currency, a lower amount, but borrowing none the less.
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Our earlier use of this policy approach had little effect on the amount of currency in circulation or on other broad measures of the money supply, such as bank deposits.
That post seemed to have struck a nerve considering the amount of social currency it generated.
It would then arrange to have an equivalent amount in foreign currency deposited in the client's accounts offshore.
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One idea gaining currency is to limit the amount of contributions a candidate may raise outside his electoral district.
Just printing the right amount of local currency is difficult.
It has to have a stable, trustworthy government that is carrying out a set of constant development reforms that bring in new industries, reform the banking sector and have a good amount of foreign currency reserves in order to pay for foreign obligations and protect against attacks on their currencies.
All of these money manipulation techniques basically amount to forms of currency devaluation, even if that is not their overt goal.
It says that, if necessary, the central bank will create an unlimited amount of Swiss national currency to buy foreign exchange and thereby push down the value of the franc.
Pakistan delegation members in Colombo complained that they were short of shopping money because foreign currency restrictions are tight and the amount of money they can take out of Pakistan is tiny.
There is also the risk of currency fluctuation which ate up a notable amount of revenues in Q2 2012, especially from Brazil.
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Each unit of Terra currency would be charged each year a transaction fee of 3.5% to 4%, assessed against the face value of the currency, depreciating its backing by that amount.
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On closer examination it may amount to not much more than a currency move.
Japan pushed its currency down 3% yesterday by selling an unconfirmed amount of yen into the market.
All payments (regardless of their amount) can be made in either currency without asking permission from anybody.
The bank, in essence, said it was willing to print any amount of euros to save the single currency.
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The currency conversion fee was 0.2% of the transaction amount and the cross border fee was 0.8% of the transactions amount.
In 2010, MasterCard charged a currency conversion and cross-border fee off 1% of the transaction amount.
Analysts said the decline is mostly due to a stronger dollar, meaning the Chinese government has to spend more renmimbi (RMB) to acquire the same amount of bonds it purchased a month prior, when their currency was stronger.
This is a flow variable and so should largely exclude currency valuation effects, but the drawback is that it will usually overstate the amount of official FX intervention as it includes monthly foreign exchange transactions by the PBoC and commercial banks.
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