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Recent Examples on the Web That's $67,592,000, according to that day's official exchange rate. — Fox News, "US sells ambassador's home in Israel for $67M, cementing embassy move to Jerusalem," 30 Dec. 2020 Yet because of exchange rate risks and dollar payments, Ghana’s ratio of external payments to revenue, for example, rose from 10% in 2014 to 40% in 2018. — Ramya Vijaya, Quartz, "Covid-19 further exposes inequalities in the global financial system," 17 Dec. 2020 To be clear, a high black market exchange rate is terrible for import-dependent businesses that cannot access foreign exchange from official government channels given existing restrictions. — Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa, "Nigeria’s defense of a spiraling naira and its multiple exchange rates isn’t working," 30 Nov. 2020 Fernandez’s administration is seeking to reduce the gap between Argentina’s official exchange rate — where $1 fetches about 75 pesos — and that on the black market, where a dollar costs about 130 pesos. — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, "The Capital Note: Semiconductors, Social Distancing & Scientific Stagnation," 16 Sep. 2020 When the price level is increasing rapidly and erratically on a day-by-day, hour-by-hour, or even minute-by-minute basis, exchange rate quotations are the only source of information on how fast inflation is actually proceeding. — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, "The Capital Letter: Week of November 2," 6 Nov. 2020 Now imagine adding a third exchange rate to the mix: that of the digital yuan. — Mary Hui, Quartz, "One way China could make its digital yuan go global: pay people to use it," 3 Dec. 2020 Nigeria’s official exchange rate should not be determined by the parallel market where the naira value has weakened to a three-month low. — Tope Alake, Bloomberg.com, "Nigerian Parallel Market Can’t Dictate Naira Rate, Emefiele Says," 24 Nov. 2020 China also has many tools for influencing the exchange rate beyond direct intervention. — The Economist, "If China’s economy is so strong, why isn’t its currency stronger?," 31 Oct. 2020

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