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RBA Glossary definition for floating exchange rate
floating exchange rate – Exchange rates determined by market forces based on the demand for and supply of a currency.
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Annual Performance Statement for 2016/17
25 Sep 2017
RBA Annual Report
– 2017
Because Australia is a small open economy with a floating exchange rate, the environment of highly accommodative global monetary conditions has some effect on the way monetary policy is conducted in ... During 2016/17, the portfolio was managed so that
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2017/annual-performance-statement.html
The International Environment
4 Feb 2021
SMP
– February 2021
These adjustments have been consistent with the stated goals of promoting a two-way opening of the capital account and having a more flexible, market-determined exchange rate. ... The FLP will provide funding for 3-year terms at a floating interest rate
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/smp/2021/feb/the-international-environment.html
Operations in Financial Markets
12 Sep 2014
RBA Annual Report
– 2014
While Australia has now operated a floating exchange rate regime for more than 30 years, the Bank has always retained the discretion to intervene in the market for Australian dollars to ... As these transactions alter the supply of ES balances (without
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2014/ops-fin-mkts.html
Monetary Policy | Reserve Bank of Australia Annual Report - 1985
30 Jun 1985
Annual Report
The floating exchange rate has also increased the influence of the Bank's market operations on domestic financial conditions – in particular, the extent to which these operations are able to modify ... The floating exchange rate, coupled with the
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/1985/mon-policy.html
Earnings and Distribution
25 Oct 2010
RBA Annual Report
– 2010
rates. An appreciation of the exchange rate results in valuation losses, as foreign assets are worth less in Australian dollars; an exchange rate depreciation leads to valuation gains. ... faced by the Bank in managing market risk on its assets in a
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2010/earnings-dist.html
Economic Outlook
10 Aug 2013
SMP
– August 2013
the forecast horizon as the global economy experiences above-trend growth and the stimulatory effects of the recent exchange rate depreciation and current low level of interest rates lead to an ... The path of the exchange rate is an important source of
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/smp/2013/aug/eco-outlook.html
Economic Outlook
10 Feb 2011
SMP
– February 2011
year or so, reflecting the ongoing effects of the exchange rate appreciation on imported consumer goods prices. ... The experience of 2007 and early 2008 suggests that – notwithstanding the insulating role of a floating exchange rate – the
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/smp/2011/feb/eco-outlook.html
Financial System Stability
2 Sep 2003
RBA Annual Report
– 2003
First, foreign reserves are a more relevant indicator for countries with fixed or managed exchange rate systems than for countries with a floating exchange rate, such as Australia. ... A relatively low ratio of foreign reserves to short-term debt is also
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2003/fin-sys-stability.html
International and Foreign Exchange Markets
10 Feb 2012
SMP
– February 2012
23). The apparent downward pressure on the renminbi in late 2011 was also reflected in the offshore (floating) renminbi exchange rate, which traded at a small discount to the onshore rate ... throughout this period, and in the non-deliverable forward
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/smp/2012/feb/intl-fx-mkts.html
Box E: Yields on Sovereign Debt
10 May 2012
SMP
– May 2012
Interest rate swaps are contracts whereby one party exchanges fixed (swap) rate payments on a notional amount for receipts determined by a floating (or reference) rate applied to the same amount. ... Within the Australian market, bank bill swap reference
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/smp/2012/may/box-e.html