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Economists said the dec-line in the number of Filipinos leaving for overseas jobs and the strong peso had not yet hurt remittances.

The value of the peso had been declining precipitously, undermining Mexico's ability to borrow money or to repay existing debts.

One was an editorial in the Wall Street Journal that referred to Canada's dollar as "the peso of the north. "

However, he says producers might have to raise prices later this year if the peso strengthens because of the inflow of reconstruction money.

It was adopted as a symbol for the Peso in the American colonies, and was transferred to the dollar.

Chile went down the well-worn route of currency intervention, sterilized through local bond issues, to try to limit peso strength.

I may also run out of battery or even a peso but my heart won't run out of space for you!

Another says that it is a variant of a figure eight that appeared on the Spanish Peso, standing for the pieces of eight.

He says this was to buy a stake in a hotel company that was priced in dollars and insists that he was not speculating against the peso.

The Mexican peso has fallen by 18% against the dollar since the beginning of 2008.

After the peso devalued it became easier to woo companies to put their plants in Mexico with support operations in Texas.

This hit Mexico suddenly in September, when the peso devalued (it has lost about 25% of its value against the dollar).

This method of naming coins weighed heavily in naming of the Spanish peso and of the Italian lira.

While the political stakes of the devaluation (of the Peso) are enormous for Zedillo, they loom large as well for Bill Clinton.

The company put a roof over the slag heaps and set up a 60m peso ($6. 4m) medical fund.

Nipping inflation in the bud would require a rise in interest rates and curbs on public spending, as well as letting the peso appreciate.

Would that mean that Los Angeles should then abandon the U. S. dollar, and issue a Los Angeles peso?

The dollar was replaced by the "convertible peso" commonly known as a CUC and now valued at $1. 08.

And when the central bank does intervene to try to stem excessive strength in the peso, the tactics are different from, say, Brazil's.

However in rural communities in Mexico, where every peso counts, even 3% is a big bite out of a remittance cheque.

He has said any system that created the Mexican peso crisis, the Asian financial crisis and the current troubles needs to be changed.

Fearful they would lose access to hard currency, investors bought Argentina's dollar-denominated bonds and dumped their peso equivalents.

Financial markets have reacted sharply: the peso has fallen by 5. 5% against the dollar since the emergency began.

The oil crisis in Venezuela and the crash of the Argentinean peso sparked recessions that inhibited wealth generation there.

But it is not clear whether she will contemplate a rise in interest rates or an appreciation of the peso.

The Central Bank has intervened less to prop up the peso and capital flight is easing.

He says that even though yields on peso-denominated bonds are at record lows, the trade 'is not that crowded yet. '

In Washington the Clinton Administration's proposed $ 40 billion bailout of the weakened peso met with stiff opposition from Democrats.

In a positive sign, the peso surged after the announcement and prices of Mexican bonds strengthened.

The retail sector is also suffering because the peso has once again dropped against the dollar, though McAllen is still a shopping hub.

Every emerging market currency bar the Argentine peso weakened against the dollar.

The peso has appreciated by 29% against the dollar since the end of October 2008.

If the government hoped to strengthen the peso or improve financial transparency, it has accomplished the opposite.

Even the Argentine peso and Brazilian real are thriving against the dollar.

As global stock markets have plunged in recent months, so has the value of almost everything else, from Mexico's peso to the price of oil.

The budget is in deficit, the current account is near zero, and the peso is overvalued.

When their income is only 100 Pesos a day, every Peso counts.

Eventually, businessmen might say: Let's dump the Los Angeles peso and just use the dollar, like everyone else.

Meanwhile, Cuba's government devalued the convertible peso by 8% against the dollar.

In other words, the Philippine peso is the world's most undervalued currency, the Swiss franc its most overvalued.

And the devaluation of the peso means that dollar oil revenues will go further in pesos.

Secondly, the overly high valuation of the peso is also an indispensable factor.

One idea is to repeg the "convertible peso" at par to the dollar.

The devaluation of the Mexican peso in the 1980s put a damper on cross-border shopping; local tourism was down because of the recession.

Mexico's reserves were down to $2 billion, and the value of the peso had dropped another 10 percent during the day.

This amount was extremely high considering that an average workman's daily pay was about one peso .

Last week, the Mexican peso touched an all-time low versus the dollar, prompting the government to intervene in the foreign-exchange market.

Another story is that it is a variant of a figure "8" that appeared on the Spanish Peso, standing for pieces of eight.

Both the Mexican peso and local equity prices rose after the announcement was made.

Capital flight is putting pressure on the peso. And Brazil is slowing.

Mexico's peso weakened sharply against other currencies after the government announced the new emergency measures.

The government's policy of keeping the peso artificially cheap means that wages in dollars are low, checking the inflow.

With 149 confirmed deaths in Mexico, the Peso has came under heavy selling pressure, losing another 2. 5% against the Usd.

In 2005 President Fidel Castro revalued the "convertible peso" by 8%. That did nothing for tourism.

Capital flight is putting pressure on the peso.

The rising yuan and the cheap peso accentuate this trend.

The peso has risen by 12% since falling to a 16-year low in early March.

He recalled a commitment by Fidel in 2005 gradually to revalue the peso.

In the 1990s, when the peso was fixed at par to the dollar, foreigners flooded in, prompting the government to restrict migration.

The ringgit, Korean won, Philippine peso and Thai baht are all up 5% against the dollar over that time.

The Malaysian ringgit has climbed almost 11 per cent, the Philippine peso has risen 6 per cent, and the Indonesian rupiah is up 5 per cent.

However, so too, as a result, has the peso, which has punished the country's other exporters.

To enter the island, it's an extra 200-peso admission fee.

Back then one peso bought $0. 32; today it buys just $0. 24, despite recent support from the central bank (see chart).

Is the peso overvalued in 1994? Why or why not?

Mr. Gurwitz, for instance, advises clients to buy the Korean won, Taiwan dollar, Philippine peso and other currencies.

Like the peripheral euro-area countries, it lost competitiveness during the ten years after 1991 when the peso was fixed to the dollar.

To control domestic inflation, the peso is overvalued and the exchange rate pegged to the dollar and floating.

But since 2009 the Mexican peso has appreciated 9 per cent against the dollar while the renminbi has appreciated 3 per cent.

Since Ms Manjares totted up her budget, the peso has gained another 3. 1 per cent on the dollar.

When the currency was reformed in 1983, 1 Peso Argentino was exchanged for 10, 000 of the "old" Peso.

Income per person slipped below Brazil's in 2009, but only because of the real's surge and the peso's weakness.

That said, remittance data have probably been flattered by the fall in the peso compared with the same period last year.

In 1975, the largest Argentine Peso denomination was 1, 000.

Shortly thereafter, in 1985, the Escudo (1960-1975) was replaced by the New Peso at a rate of 1, 000 to 1.

The peso trades at 44. 883 against the dollar, compared to 48. 80 last August.

In Hong Kong recently, someone fired the first shot of what could become the Great Philippine Peso revolt.

It is common to pay the bill with 100-peso ($24) notes, once nearly impossible to change.

The Mexican peso, for example, has taken a hit.

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Over the past ten years the Hong Kong dollar has depreciated against everything bar the Mexican peso.