How to Use foreign exchange in a Sentence

foreign exchange

noun
  • Our country has to export more in order to earn more foreign exchange.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Without the losses from foreign exchange, Netflix would have posted 13% year-over-year revenue growth.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 19 July 2022
  • Japan's yen hasn't been this weak in 20 years, rattling foreign exchange markets as investors race to determine just how far the currency could fall.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Even before the floods, Pakistan faced a steep fall in foreign exchange because of soaring global commodity prices and a rise in the U.S. dollar.
    Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Sri Lanka then had to fall back on its foreign exchange reserves to pay off government debt, shrinking its reserves.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 14 July 2022
  • Nepal’s balance-of-payments problem comes at the same time as a much more serious foreign exchange crisis hits Sri Lanka.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Its revenue shortfall was caused by issues with foreign exchange caused by a rising dollar.
    Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 4 May 2023
  • China could serve as a crucial supply of cash to Moscow through Russia’s foreign exchange reserves.
    Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The Tanzanian government hopes that the $6.3 million broadband project will attract more tourists to the mountain and help boost its revenues and foreign exchange.
    Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 19 Aug. 2022
  • For much of this year, authorities have taken a hands-on role in foreign exchange markets, using up tens of billions of dollars of reserves to hold the lira steady.
    Reuters, CNN, 7 June 2023
  • One reason for the RBI to embark on a gold-buying spree could be an attempt to diversify assets in which its foreign exchange reserves are parked.
    Quartz, 1 Nov. 2022

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