How to Use foreign exchange in a Sentence
foreign exchange
noun- Our country has to export more in order to earn more foreign exchange.
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The increase will force banks to deposit more foreign exchange assets, putting downward pressure on the yuan.
—Ben Westcott, CNN, 2 June 2021
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Max's two younger brothers also came to live with the Wabaunsees as foreign exchange students.
—Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 22 Jan. 2021
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If nothing changes, this doomsday machine will devour the country’s foreign exchange.
—Jacques De Larosière and Steve H. Hanke, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2021
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While the show was being filmed, the Rihns had a foreign exchange student from Madrid living with them.
—Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
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Deprived of vital foreign exchange reserves, the country has struggled to maintain the value of its currency, the kwacha.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 June 2021
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The increase will force banks to hold more foreign exchange assets in reserve, thus tightening the supply of foreign currency on the market and putting downward pressure on the yuan.
—Laura He, CNN, 4 June 2021
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Travel restrictions have also reduced demand for the zero-fee foreign exchange rates that act as a key draw for several of Europe’s leading ‘neobanks’.
—Paul-Noël Guély, Forbes, 2 June 2021
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Organic sales – a key measure of sales excluding impacts from foreign exchange, mergers or acquisitions – climbed 4%.
—Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2021
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Thiel and Pompeo also discussed whether Chinese foreign exchange students should be allowed to study in the United States.
—Angel Au-Yeung, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
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Instead, the foreign exchange market put on the brakes by raising the value of the dollar, stimulating imports and making our exports non-competitive.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 3 Mar. 2021
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Had the Mullahs with about $4billion in foreign exchange.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 17 Oct. 2023
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China has the largest foreign exchange reserves in the world.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 22 Sep. 2022
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What if the creature was part of a foreign exchange program?
—Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Apr. 2022
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Hong Kong’s foreign exchange reserves are the world’s eight-largest.
—Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Malawi devalued the kwacha by 25% in May to address a shortage of foreign exchange.
—Karl Lester M Yap, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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His first posting was in the foreign exchange department.
—Fortune, 22 Apr. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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The euro’s share of global foreign exchange reserves eroded and has now fallen below 20 percent.
—Eswar Prasad, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
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