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What is the importance of the Currency Exchange rate to people around the world? Well first of all what is this exchange rate were talking about. These exchange rates are usually currencies of countries and their corresponding conversion rate. It is the value of another country’s currency compared to that of your own. If you’re traveling to another country you need to buy the local the exchange currency. Theoretically identical assets should sell at the same price in different countries because the exchange rate must maintain the inherent value of one currency against the other.

Exchange rate are usually posted when your watching the news or you can go on line and posted are the daily exchange rates of over 200 currencies.

Business travelers use them to complete their travel expense reports. While stock investors calculate their foreign stock dividend or stock value for reporting tax purposes.

The foreign exchange market is the largest market in the world. In fact over 1 trillion dollars is traded in the currency market on a daily basis.

The official rate is the fixed rate the government sets and maintains. While there is the floating rate, this is determined by the private market through supply and demand. That is why there is the so called black market, here the Central Bank will often be forced to revalue or devalue the official rate to make it in line with the rate outside so as to stop the activity in the black market.

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