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  1. Accreting Principal Swap

  2. ADF (Andorran Franc)

  3. Adjustable Peg

  4. Adjustment

  5. AED (United Arab Emirates Dirham)

  6. AFA (Afghanistan Afghani)

  7. Aggregate Risk

  8. ALL (Albanian Lek)

  9. American Currency Quotation

  10. ANG (Netherlands Antilles Guilder)

  11. AON (Angolan Novo Kwanza)

  12. Application Programming Interface - API

  13. Arbitrage Pricing Theory - APT

  14. ARP (Argentinian peso)

  15. ARS (Argentinian Nuevo peso)

  16. Asian Currency Unit - ACU

  17. ATS (Austrian Schilling)

  18. AUD

  19. AUD (Australian Dollar)

  20. AUD/USD (Australian Dollar/U.S. Dollar)

  21. Aussie

  22. Authorized Forex Dealer

  23. Automated Forex Trading

  24. Automatic Execution

  25. Autotrading

  26. AWG (Aruban Florin)

  27. Base Currency

  28. Basic Balance

  29. Basket Of USD Shorts

  30. BBD (Barbados Dollar)

  31. BDT (Bangladesh Taka)

  32. Bear Squeeze

  33. Bear Straddle

  34. BerkShares

  35. BGN (Bulgarian Lev)

  36. BHD (Bahraini Dinar)

  37. Bhutan Ngultrum (BTN)

  38. Bid

  39. Bid And Asked

  40. BIF (Burundi Franc)

  41. Big Mac PPP

  42. Bimetallic Standard

  43. Bitcoin

  44. Bitomat

  45. Blocked Currency

  46. BMD (Bermudian Dollar)

  47. BND (Brunei Dollar)

  48. BOB (Bolivian Boliviano)

  49. Bosnia-Herzegovina Convertible Mark - BAM

  50. Bretton Woods Agreement

  51. Britcoin

  52. BRL (Brazilian Real)

  53. BSD (Bahamian Dollar)

  54. BTN (Bhutanese Ngultrum)

  55. Burgernomics

  56. Buy Quote

  57. BWP (Botswana Pula)

  58. BZD (Belize Dollar)

  59. Cable

  60. CAD

  61. CAD (Canadian Dollar)

  62. Calgary Dollar

  63. Cambist

  64. Cambrist

  65. Carry Grid

  66. Cash Delivery

  67. Central African CFA Franc - XAF

  68. CFA Franc

  69. CFP Franc - XPF

  70. CHF

  71. CHF (Swiss Franc)

  72. Circus Swap

  73. Clean Float

  74. CLP (Chilean Peso)

  75. CNY

  76. CNY (China Yuan Renminbi)

  77. Commodity Pairs

  78. Common Gap

  79. Community Currency

  80. Complementary Currency - CC

  81. Confederate Dollar

  82. Constant Currencies

  83. Continentals

  84. Contract Unit

  85. Conversion Rate

  86. Convertible Currency

  87. COP

  88. Copey

  89. Counter Currency

  90. Crawling Peg

  91. CRC

  92. Credit Checking

  93. Cross Currency

  94. Cross Rate

  95. Cross-Currency Settlement Risk

  96. Cross-Currency Swap

  97. Cross-Currency Transaction

  98. CUP

  99. Currency

  100. Currency Appreciation

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    A phenomenon in which the general price levels rise (inflation) due to increases in the cost of wages and raw materials.
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