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  2. Mexican peso - Wikipedia

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    USD/MXN exchange rate. Mexican peso crisis in 1994 was an unpegging and devaluation of the peso and happened the same year NAFTA was ratified. [2]The Mexican peso (symbol: $; currency code: MXN; also abbreviated Mex$ to distinguish it from other peso-denominated currencies; referred to as the peso, Mexican peso, or colloquially varo) is the official currency of Mexico.

  3. Fixed exchange rate system - Wikipedia

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    A fixed exchange rate, often called a pegged exchange rate, is a type of exchange rate regime in which a currency's value is fixed or pegged by a monetary authority against the value of another currency, a basket of other currencies, or another measure of value, such as gold or silver.

  4. Mexican peso crisis - Wikipedia

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    USD/MXN exchange rate Mexico inflation rate 1970-2022. The Mexican peso crisis was a currency crisis sparked by the Mexican government's sudden devaluation of the peso against the U.S. dollar in December 1994, which became one of the first international financial crises ignited by capital flight.

  5. Peso - Wikipedia

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    The founding of the Casa de Moneda de Manila mint in 1857 and the minting of gold 1, 2 and 4 peso coins starting 1861, and The minting of 50, 20 and 10 centimo silver coins starting 1864. As with Mexican dollars, the Philippine unit was based on silver, unlike the United States and Canada where a gold standard operated.

  6. Peso problem - Wikipedia

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    The peso problem in finance is a problem which arises when "the possibility that some infrequent or unprecedented event may occur affects asset prices". The difficulty or impossibility of predicting such an event creates problems in modeling the economy and financial markets by using the past.

  7. Floating exchange rate - Wikipedia

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    From 1946 to the early 1970s, the Bretton Woods system made fixed currencies the norm; however, during 1971, the US government decided to discontinue maintaining the dollar exchange at 1/35 of an ounce of gold and so its currency was no longer fixed. [3] After the end of the Smithsonian Agreement in 1973, most of the world's currencies followed ...

  8. Mexican real - Wikipedia

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    The real was a currency of Mexico, issued until 1897. [1] There were 16 silver reales to 1 gold escudo, with 8 tlacos to the real. The peso, which circulated alongside the real and eventually replaced it, was equal to 8 reales. The first reales issued in Mexico were Spanish colonial reales. These were followed in 1822 by independent issues of ...

  9. Dollar sign - Wikipedia

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    The dollar sign, also known as the peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital S crossed with one or two vertical strokes ($ or depending on typeface), used to indicate the unit of various currencies around the world, including most currencies denominated "dollar" or "peso".