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When MacArthur and the US forces entered Japan in 1945, they decreed an official conversion rate of 15 yen to the USD. Within 1945–1946: the rate tanked to 50 yen to the USD because of the ongoing inflation. During the first half of 1946, the rate fluctuated to 66 yen to the USD and eventually plummeting to 600 yen to the dollar by 1947 ...
1979–1984: yen remained between 200–250 per dollar. 1985: The Plaza Accord revalued the yen from 250 to 160 per dollar. 1986–1988: yen further strengthened to 120 per dollar, resulting in the second endaka. 1989–1995: yen fluctuated between 100 and 160 per dollar. 1995: yen surged to a then-postwar high of 79 per dollar, resulting in ...
Japanese middle school textbooks often state that one ryō was approximately equivalent to 100,000 Yen at the start of the Edo period, and around 3000–4000 yen at the end of the Edo period. On the other hand, the Currency Museum of the Bank of Japan states that one ryō had a nominal value equivalent 300,000–400,000 yen, but was worth only ...
The yen, long a safe haven for investors during times of crisis, has declined against the dollar. A year ago, one U.S. dollar was worth 140 yen; it's worth around 161 yen now.
Xiaomi’s Hong Kong stock was up 5.67% Friday to trade at 42.85 Hong Kong dollars, while Alibaba stock jumped 1.47% to trade at 100 Hong Kong dollars. Tencent, China’s largest video game firm ...
Each currency typically has a main currency unit (the dollar, for example, or the euro) and a fractional unit, often defined as 1 ⁄ 100 of the main unit: 100 cents = 1 dollar, 100 centimes = 1 franc, 100 pence = 1 pound, although units of 1 ⁄ 10 or 1 ⁄ 1000 occasionally also occur.
These foreign-currency deposits are the financial assets of the central banks and monetary authorities that are held in different reserve currencies (e.g., the U.S. dollar, the euro, the pound sterling, the Japanese yen, the Swiss franc, the Indian rupees and the Chinese renminbi) and which are used to back its liabilities (e.g., the local ...
English: Graph showing U.S. dollar and Japanese yen exchange rate from January, 1950. 日本語: 1950年1 ...