BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Dirty Float

  • a floating exchange rate that cannot float freely because a country's central bank intervenes on foreign exchange markets to alter its level

Additional Resources

The Swiss Dirty Float: Enlightened Self-Interest or Self-Destruction?
G-7 currency intervention has not been implemented on a coordinated basis at any time over the past eighteen months. The carnage in the capital markets during this tumultuous period may have been averted or slowed if currency intervention had taken place. In an abundance of caution the G-7 Central Bankers...
Tags: Seeking Alpha, Bruce Krasting, CurrencyShares Euro Trust, CurrencyShares Swiss Franc Trust
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Articles 2008-04-10