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  2. Currency pair - Wikipedia

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    A currency pair is the quotation of the relative value of a currency unit against the unit of another currency in the foreign exchange market.The currency that is used as the reference is called the counter currency, quote currency, or currency [1] and the currency that is quoted in relation is called the base currency or transaction currency.

  3. Bitcoin - Wikipedia

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    In February 2018, the price crashed after China imposed a complete ban on bitcoin trading. [38] The percentage of bitcoin trading in the Chinese renminbi fell from over 90% in September 2017 to less than 1% in June 2018. [39] During the same year, bitcoin prices were negatively affected by several hacks or thefts from cryptocurrency exchanges. [40]

  4. Currency - Wikipedia

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    An exchange rate is a price at which two currencies can be exchanged against each other. This is used for trade between the two currency zones. Exchange rates can be classified as either floating or fixed. In the former, day-to-day movements in exchange rates are determined by the market; in the latter, governments intervene in the market to ...

  5. Brazilian real - Wikipedia

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    Retailers now generally round their prices to the next 5 or 10 centavos. ... GBP £ 12.8%: 12.9%: 0.1pp ... Philippine peso: PHP ...

  6. Foreign exchange market - Wikipedia

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    Asset prices are influenced mostly by people's willingness to hold the existing quantities of assets, which in turn depends on their expectations on the future worth of these assets. The asset market model of exchange rate determination states that “the exchange rate between two currencies represents the price that just balances the relative ...

  7. 2008 financial crisis - Wikipedia

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    A graph showing the median and average sales prices of new homes sold in the United States between 1963 and 2016 (not adjusted for inflation) [76] Between 1998 and 2006, the price of the typical American house increased by 124%. [292] During the 1980s and 1990s, the national median home price ranged from 2.9 to 3.1 times median household income.

  8. Cost of electricity by source - Wikipedia

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    The cost of a solar PV module make up the largest part of the total investment costs. As per the recent analysis of Solar Power Generation Costs in Japan 2021, module unit prices fell sharply. In 2018, the average price was close to 60,000 yen/kW, but by 2021 it is estimated at 30,000 yen/kW, so cost is reduced by almost half.

  9. Gold standard - Wikipedia

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    The United Kingdom slipped into a gold specie standard in 1717 by over-valuing gold at 15 + 1 ⁄ 5 times its weight in silver. It was unique among nations to use gold in conjunction with clipped, underweight silver shillings, addressed only before the end of the 18th century by the acceptance of gold proxies like token silver coins and banknotes.