to float the exchange rate
21Foreign-exchange reserves — Foreign exchange Exchange rates Currency band Exchange rate Exchange rate regime Exchange rate flexibility Dollarization Fixed exchange rate Floating exchange rate Linked exchange rate Managed float regime Markets Foreign exchange market Futures… …
22Foreign-exchange option — Foreign exchange Exchange rates Currency band Exchange rate Exchange rate regime Exchange rate flexibility Dollarization Fixed exchange rate Floating exchange rate Linked exchange rate Managed float regime Markets Foreign exchange market Futures… …
23Clean Float — Also known as a pure exchange rate, a clean float occurs when the value of a currency, the exchange rate, is determined purely by supply and demand. Clean floats can only exist where there is no government interference, as would be the case in a… …
24managed float — / mænɪdʒd fləυt/ noun a process of floating of a currency where the exchange rate is controlled by the central bank. Compare clean float. Also called dirty float …
25The Dogs of the Dow — is an investment strategy popularized by Michael B. O Higgins, in 1991 which proposes that an investor annually select for investment the ten Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks whose dividend is the highest fraction of their price. Proponents of …
26dirty float — / dɜ:ti fləυt/ noun a process of floating a currency, where the government intervenes to regulate the exchange rate …
27float — /floht/, v.i. 1. to rest or remain on the surface of a liquid; be buoyant: The hollow ball floated. 2. to move gently on the surface of a liquid; drift along: The canoe floated downstream. 3. to rest or move in a liquid, the air, etc.: a balloon… …
28History of the United States dollar — The history of the United States dollar covers more than 200 years.Early historyThe history of the dollar in North America pre dates US independence. Even before the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress had authorized the… …
29Economy of the Confederate States of America — The Confederate States of America had an agrarian based economy that relied heavily on slave worked plantations for the production of cotton for export to Europe and the northern US states. If ranked as an independent nation, it would have been… …
30float — [[t]floʊt[/t]] v. i. 1) to rest or remain on the surface of a liquid; be buoyant 2) to move gently on the surface of a liquid; drift along: The canoe floated downstream[/ex] 3) to rest or move in a liquid, the air, etc.: a balloon floating on… …
