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Currency peg

The act of connecting the value of a country's currency to that of another country

Example usage from an FT article:

In 1998, hedge funds launched an attempt to break the territory’s currency peg to
the dollar.
Excerpt from "What should the Bank of Japan do with its huge stock portfolio?"

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