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Sterilized interventionForeign exchange market activity by which monetary authorities insulate their domestic money supplies from the foreign exchange transactions with offsetting sales or purchases of domestic assets.Sterilized intervention Similar MatchesEnvironmental protection argument for a trade interventionEnvironmental protection argument for a trade interventionThe view that trade should be restricted in order to help the environment. Examples include embargos on imports made from endangered species, limits on imports produced by methods harmful to the atmosphere, and restrictions on investment into locations with lax environmental standards. This is usually a second-best argument. Nonsterilized interventionNonsterilized interventionTaking an action in the foreign exchange market without adjusting for changes in money supply. Central bank interventionCentral bank interventionThe buying or selling of currency, foreign or domestic, by central banks in order to influence market conditions or exchange rate movements. Unsterilized interventionUnsterilized interventionForeign exchange market intervention in which the monetary authorities have not insulated their domestic money supplies from the foreign exchange transactions. Intervention currencyIntervention currencyA currency that is commonly used by central banks for exchange market intervention. See reserve currency. Further SuggestionsInterventionExchange-market intervention Central bank intervention |
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