Finance, Forex and Investments

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Summary: demand. They do this by supplying more of the currency. In other words they sell sterling and buy other currencies instead. This shifts the supply curve to S2, and maintains the fixed rate. To maintain the exchange rate, the government had to sell sterling and buy foreign currency, therefore increasing their holdings of foreign currency. Floating rates A floating exchange

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