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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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Foreign Exchange Exposures of Australian Banks
10 Aug 2000
Bulletin
– August 2000
This measure encompasses exposures to exchange rate movements, as well as banks' exposures to movements in interest rates, and equity and commodity prices. ... Suppose an Australian institution issues floating rate US$ debt into the offshore market.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2000/aug/2.html
Trends in Global Foreign Currency Reserves
15 Sep 2017
Bulletin
– September 2017
Over the decade to 2014, global foreign currency reserves doubled relative to GDP, though balances have declined a little since then. Accompanying this growth has been a shift in the composition of reserves towards higher-yielding assets, including
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2017/sep/9.html
Trends in Australian Banks' Bond Issuance
15 Sep 2022
Bulletin
– September 2022
Bonds account for around 10 per cent of Australian banks’ funding, and bonds issued by banks account for about half of the non-government bond market.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2022/sep/trends-in-australian-banks-bond-issuance.html
Statement on Monetary Policy
10 May 2003
Bulletin
– May 2003
At the end of that year, the exchange rate against the US dollar was around US51 cents. ... The exchange rate against the US dollar, of course, remains well below its long-run average.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2003/may/1.html
Future Directions for Monetary Policies in East Asia
10 Oct 2001
Bulletin
– October 2001
According to this view, the choice is between a hard fix (monetary union, currency board or dollarisation) and a freely floating exchange rate. ... But where that model, in its canonical form at least, assumes that a floating exchange rate will address
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2001/oct/1.html
Statement on Monetary Policy
10 Feb 2004
Bulletin
– February 2004
exchange rate now prevailing, and also by capacity constraints in the resources sector. ... Australia's recent inflation performance has been marked by contrasting influences from domestic conditions and the exchange rate.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2004/feb/1.html
The Performance of Resource-exporting Economies
19 Sep 2013
Bulletin
– September 2013
The surge in demand for resources over the past decade led to sharp increases in the terms of trade not just for Australia, but also for other economies with comparable resource exports such as Brazil, Canada, Chile, Russia and South Africa. Each of
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2013/sep/3.html
The Economy and Financial Markets
10 Aug 2000
Bulletin
– August 2000
Graph 11. Graph 12. Most of the Asian economies with freely floating currencies have experienced some exchange rate falls against the US dollar in recent months. ... The falls were fairly modest (in the order of 5 per cent) and well within the
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2000/aug/1.html
Statement on Monetary Policy
10 May 2001
Bulletin
– May 2001
Currencies of those Asian countries with floating exchange rates have fallen significantly against the US dollar over the past year, with falls ranging from 6 per cent for the Singapore dollar ... The US dollar's strength on world markets was an
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2001/may/1.html
Bulletin August 2001 – Statement on Monetary Policy
10 Aug 2001
Bulletin
However, several other emerging market economies have had to raise interest rates, despite slowing output growth, to counter exchange rate pressures. ... Graph 28. Because the US dollar is moving independently against most other major floating currencies,
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2001/aug/1.html