One drag on the market has been the fluctuation of the dollar — because Argentine property is often priced in dollars, said Valerio Valle, the administration adviser of Valle Real Estate, an Italian real estate company that sells property in Argentina.
In the case of non-dollar countries, it gives you a fairly good protection against fluctuations of the dollar.
Actually, Argentina was facing deflation; the trouble was that by pegging to the United States, which did not by any means dominate its trade, Argentina exposed itself to the fluctuations of the dollar (any perceived similarities to the problem of a gold standard are completely right).
So the fluctuation of the Canadian dollar to the foreign currency in which they have their assets is represented (or counteracted) here.
Paul Taylor, chief economist for the National Automobile Dealers Association, said that European cars might increase in price, but only because of dollar fluctuations.
Its price fluctuation in dollars reflects not a change in the value of gold but a change in the real worth of the greenback.
The period between March 2008 and March 2009 displayed a greater degree of currency fluctuation against U.S. dollars than in the previous year, Constantin-Métral said.
It said this was "due mainly to sharp and very pronounced trend reversal in fluctuation of exchange rates, particularly the US dollar".
Big American multinational manufacturing companies can feel the pinch of dollar-renminbi fluctuations.
You watch the fluctuation of betting patterns.
Tells about the fluctuation of the stock.
