Tag: dollar

• Thursday, May 3rd 2018 - 08:39 UTC

  Lack of investor confidence sees the Argentine Peso fall 3.11% against the dollar

  

  Argentina’s peso currency closed down 3.11% on Wednesday at an all-time low of 21.2 per U.S. dollar, even as the central bank continued selling dollars to try to halt the slide of the local currency, traders said. The currency’s sustained weakening showed a lack of investor confidence in Latin America’s third largest economy, which is blighted by one of the world’s highest inflation rates.

• Tuesday, November 14th 2017 - 09:44 UTC

  Sterling slides on concerns about UK leadership and rebel Tory MPs

  

  Sterling fell against the dollar and euro on Monday as investors worried about Theresa May's ability to stay on as British prime minister and get what they consider to be a good exit deal from the European Union.

• Friday, November 1st 2013 - 21:36 UTC

  Dollar-short Venezuela creates new exchange rate system for arriving tourists

  

  Venezuela will create a new exchange rate for tourists to buy up to US$10,000 of the local Bolivar currency per year in a measure intended to help reduce black market trading, the government said in its official gazette.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2013 - 03:07 UTC

  Uruguay needs ‘a dollar at 25 Pesos’ if it wants to remain competitive warn economists

  

  Uruguay is too expensive in dollar terms and needs to adapt quickly because the adjustment will come anyway ‘and will be painful’ unless inflation is brought under control and costs equilibrium is reached with Brazil with a competitive dollar at 25 Pesos.

• Wednesday, July 10th 2013 - 05:57 UTC

  Global Euro use slips in 2012; Dollar remains king; Canada and Australian currencies emerge

  

  International use of the Euro slipped last year because of the debt crisis in Europe, but the US dollar held its own as the world’s leading currency for reserves held by central banks, according to the European Central Bank.