How to Use foreign exchange in a Sentence

foreign exchange

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  • Our country has to export more in order to earn more foreign exchange.
  • The widening trade surplus has also helped China boost its foreign exchange reserves, already the largest in the world.
    — Laura He, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
  • In foreign exchange markets, the dollar’s value is strong right now—the greenback has more buying power than it’s had for almost 20 years.
    — Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 20 May 2024
  • Wells Fargo also lacked proper oversight for foreign exchange spreads, the Department of Justice found.
    — Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2021
  • This is a problem for China, which holds 56 percent of its foreign exchange reserves in U.S. dollar assets.
    — Emily Kilcrease, Foreign Affairs, 7 May 2024
  • For instance, Assure Hedge offers foreign exchange (FX) hedging for small businesses.
    — Tom Groenfeldt, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The company’s comparable sales grew 9% excluding the impact of gasoline prices and foreign exchange during this period.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • When Jin meets a new foreign exchange student on the first day of school, their worlds collide as Jin becomes entangled in a battle of Chinese mythological gods.
    — NBC News, 6 Oct. 2021
  • However, the growth translated into a 13% y-o-y increase to $7.6 billion due to fluctuations in foreign exchange rates.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Had the Mullahs with about $4billion in foreign exchange.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 17 Oct. 2023
  • China has the largest foreign exchange reserves in the world.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 22 Sep. 2022
  • What if the creature was part of a foreign exchange program?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Hong Kong’s foreign exchange reserves are the world’s eight-largest.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The witness ran toward a group of foreign exchange students and asked them to call 911.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The steep rise in cases has roiled the foreign exchange markets, with the British pound sterling falling 0.3% against the dollar.
    — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Loan rates have moved up sharply, stock prices have dropped, and the dollar has strengthened in foreign exchange markets.
    — David Wilcox, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The money appears to have been raised from the bank’s foreign exchange reserves and an auction to importers.
    — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Malawi devalued the kwacha by 25% in May to address a shortage of foreign exchange.
    — Karl Lester M Yap, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • One way to do that is by swapping the gold for a more liquid foreign exchange that is not subject to current sanctions.
    — CBS News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • In an unprecedented move, the People's Bank of China in late April cut the amount of foreign exchange banks must hold as reserves to 8% from 9%.
    — Laura He, CNN, 13 May 2022
  • By the start of March, Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves dwindled to $3 billion—just enough for three weeks of imports.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Daniil Rusanyuk is a 17-year-old Ukrainian foreign exchange student who has been studying in Texas for the past six months.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 27 Feb. 2022
  • His first posting was in the foreign exchange department.
    — Fortune, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Ken Cheung, chief Asian foreign exchange strategist at Mizuho Bank, said the meeting was a positive sign that the two sides were keen to find common ground.
    — Laura He, CNN, 15 Nov. 2022
  • To make payments in rubles, these gas purchasers will have to buy the currency first, either from the Central Bank of Russia or on the foreign exchange market.
    — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2022
  • In addition, Russia also can’t tap into the large share of its central bank’s foreign exchange reserves that are frozen in the West.
    — Clare Sebastian, CNN, 28 Aug. 2023
  • In recent years, agriculture has become a main source of foreign exchange earnings for both Ukraine and Russia.
    — James K. Glassman, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023
  • In 2020, the pandemic skewered tourism, one of Sri Lanka’s main foreign exchange-earners.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2022
  • According to data from the CIA, most countries have less than $5 billion stored in foreign exchange reserves.
    — Monica Hersher, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The simple truth is that the doltish socialists who took over in India post-partition were the cause of limited foreign exchange in India, not mean bankers.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022

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