Know-Legal Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. U.S. Dollar Index - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Dollar_Index

    The U.S. Dollar Index ( USDX, DXY, DX, or, informally, the "Dixie") is an index (or measure) of the value of the United States dollar relative to a basket of foreign currencies, [1] often referred to as a basket of U.S. trade partners' currencies. [2] The Index goes up when the U.S. dollar gains "strength" (value) when compared to other currencies.

  3. U.S. prime rate - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Prime_Rate

    U.S. prime rate. The U.S. prime rate is in principle the interest rate at which a supermajority (3/4ths) of large banks loan money to their most creditworthy corporate clients. [1] As such, it serves as the de facto floor for private-sector lending, and is the baseline from which common "consumer" interest rates are set (e.g. credit card rates).

  4. United States dollar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar

    The United States dollar ( symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

  5. History of the United States dollar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United...

    The price of gold touched briefly back at $35/ounce (112.53 ยข/g) near the end of 1969 before beginning a steady price increase. This gold price increase turned steep after President Richard Nixon unilaterally ordered the cancellation of the direct convertibility of the United States dollar to gold in 1971, an act later known as the Nixon Shock.

  6. List of circulating fixed exchange rate currencies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circulating_fixed...

    Fixed currency Reference currency Rate (reference / fixed) Abkhazian apsar: Russian ruble: 0.1 Alderney pound (only coins) [1]: Pound sterling: 1 Aruban florin: U.S. dollar

  7. Federal funds rate - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate

    Federal funds rate vs unemployment rate. In the United States, the federal funds rate is the interest rate at which depository institutions (banks and credit unions) lend reserve balances to other depository institutions overnight on an uncollateralized basis. Reserve balances are amounts held at the Federal Reserve.

  8. Exchange rate - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_rate

    The spot exchange rate is the current exchange rate, while the forward exchange rate is an exchange rate that is quoted and traded today but for delivery and payment on a specific future date. In the retail currency exchange market, different buying and selling rates will be quoted by money dealers.

  9. Exchange rate history of the Indian rupee - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_rate_history_of...

    Exchange rate history of the Indian rupee. This is a list of tables showing the historical timeline of the exchange rate for the Indian rupee (INR) against the special drawing rights unit (SDR), United States dollar (USD), pound sterling (GBP), Deutsche mark (DM), euro (EUR) and Japanese yen (JPY). The rupee was worth one shilling and sixpence ...