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- Asset classes explained: stocks, bonds, cash, real assets and more What an asset class is, how stocks, bonds, cash, real estate, commodities, currencies, crypto and derivatives differ, and what 19 years of ETF prices show.
- Currency Pair Two currencies quoted against each other, such as EUR/USD, showing how much of the second buys one unit of the first.
- Exchange rate The price of one currency in terms of another, set in the forex market or managed by a central bank.
- Foreign exchange (forex) The global over-the-counter market for trading currencies, the largest financial market by daily volume.
- Pip The standard smallest quoted move in a currency pair: 0.0001 for most pairs and 0.01 for pairs quoted in Japanese yen.
- The forex market explained: how currency trading works How the $9.6 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market is organized: dealers, spot, swaps and futures, the major pairs, who trades and what EUR/USD history shows.
- The US dollar and exchange rates: indexes, drivers and earnings How exchange rates are quoted, what the Fed broad dollar index and ICE DXY measure, what moves currencies, and how a strong dollar changes US company earnings.
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