Example sentences of "[noun sg] exchange rate " in BNC.

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1 Taking effect from Nov. 18 , the reforms included ( i ) a 331/3 per cent devaluation of the currency , with an initial base exchange rate of 90 new kwanzas to the United States dollar ; ( ii ) a reduction in personal income tax , taking the top rate from 40 per cent of earned income to 15 per cent ; ( iii ) reduced consumer taxes ; ( iv ) the lifting of price ceilings on all commodities except soap , cooking oil , rice , sugar and baby milk ; ( v ) a new salary scale for public-sector workers , to compensate for the withdrawal of ration cards which had allowed them to buy goods at low prices ; and ( vi ) a minimum national salary of 12,000 kwanzas .
2 So the two investments generate the same return if both PPP and the international Fisher effect hold , in which case exchange rate risk is unimportant .
3 A testing exchange rate will not lick the service sector into shape .
4 The reason for that is that the spot market varies with the dollar exchange rate and , for a long time , has been affected by the dumping of coal into Europe — something about which British Coal has complained to the Commission .
5 Following a dramatic rise in the US dollar exchange rate on the black market , from 6,000 intis at the end of October to 11,200 on Nov. 21 ( and to 14,000 intis by May 1990 ) , transit through the Tacna border with Chile and border points with Ecuador and Bolivia was restricted for 15 days as from Nov. 21 to crack down on smuggling and illegal trading in US dollars , particularly in the Chilean free zone of Iquique .
6 Shortly afterwards , on July 31 , the central bank introduced a two-tier dinar/US dollar exchange rate according to which ( i ) the government would continue to provide dollars at an existing fixed rate for a specified list of imports ; and ( ii ) a separate free market exchange rate would prevail for commercial banks meeting their legitimate foreign currency needs .
7 The VAT increase , combined with the lifting of the remaining controls on foreign exchange , caused a rise in the US dollar exchange rate , and fuel prices rose by 15 per cent .
8 Although the evidence presented does not refute the claim that in the long run exchange rates compensate for domestic inflation differentials , it does show that over periods of several years real exchange rate anomalies can and do occur .
9 This would help protect Jaguar from fluctuations in the dollar-sterling exchange rate — the principal factor behind the collapse in its pre-tax profits in the first half of the year to £1.2m .
10 Many felt that , as a result of joining the E.R.M. the Sterling exchange rate would be more stable against the other E.R.M. currencies ( the Deutschemark in particular ) and that there would be less requirement for hedging exchange risks in those currencies .
11 Both exerted downward pressure on the sterling exchange rate .
12 This is because it raised the real sterling exchange rate , rendering ‘ marginal ’ manufacturing exports uncompetitive .
13 Most likely it was the continued upward pressure on the sterling exchange rate over the weekend .
14 Weighted one-period ahead expected returns ( WCOMP ) take the form : the UK relative to returns elsewhere , ER denotes the change in the sterling exchange rate and superscript e denotes an expected variable .
15 This is not yet the case as the Sterling exchange rates can still fluctuate considerably against other E.R.M. currencies whilst it is in the wide band and exporters should cover or hedge currency exposures as heretofore .
16 I also know that sterling exchange rates do n't favour those companies buying on the international market .
17 With continued high interest and sterling exchange rates we are going for overkill , with grave potential consequences for the economy of this country .
18 As the Community moves towards full monetary union , with narrow band exchange rates and then the adoption of a common currency , social dumping may emerge as a real and acute problem .
19 The European Options Exchange ( EOE ) in Amsterdam offers contracts on 20 listed Dutch companies as well as the EOE index , gold and the US guilder exchange rate ( Fig. 7.1 ) .
20 Kinetic reasons are unlikely to explain this difference , since unchelated zinc and copper have rates of ligand exchange similar to those of magnesium and calcium , such as water exchange rate constants .
21 Hadj Nasser , a former director of monetary policy for the presidency , replaced Badereddine Nouioua as director of the Central Bank of Algeria on Oct. 18 , 1989 , promising to fight inflation and to " reunify " the dinar exchange rate .
22 The government says it will break up state monopolies , liberalise prices , set up an independent central bank and introduce a single rouble exchange rate .
23 Reimbursement for all these sales would be at the commercial rouble exchange rate set in October .
24 It was reported on July 28 that Estonia had set its own internal rouble exchange rate at 33 roubles to the US dollar .
25 A further series of measures , announced on Nov. 17 , lifted import and export controls and introduced a floating rouble exchange rate as of Jan. 1 , 1992 .
26 From Dec. 2 , the rouble exchange rate for tourists was to be allowed to float , in what the Financial Times called " another small step towards a partially convertible currency " .
27 The introduction of a unified rouble exchange rate , due on July 1 as a preliminary to full convertibility , appeared to have been postponed .
28 Russia , planning to unify its internal rouble exchange rates from July 1 , needed specific agreements on whether states would stay within the rouble zone , and on procedures for the introduction of separate currencies by different republic [ see below for agreement with Ukraine ] .
29 The world price of oil at current rouble exchange rates , according to Nezavisimaya Gazeta of July 9 , stood at 15,000 roubles per tonne ; the pre-September 1992 prices for Russian oil were 1,800-2,000 roubles per tonne .
30 That 's variation exchange rate in n it ?
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