Sentence examples for franc supply from inspiring English sources

Companies have also been buying up francs to pay two months of salary before the uncertain election period.The franc supply dropped even lower when nearly 19,000 candidates for the 500 seats in Congo's parliament raided the coffers before going off on their campaigns.

The CFA (African Financial Community, formerly French Community of Africa) franc zone supplies another cautionary tale.

Increasing the supply of francs relative to euros on foreign-exchange markets caused the franc's value to fall (thereby ensuring a euro was worth 1.2 francs).

Last week, the Swiss National Bank announced that it would aim to keep interest rates "as close as possible" to zero and said it would significantly increase the supply of francs in the money market.

He threatened to isolate the principality and cut off its supply of French francs, the principality's currency until the advent of the euro.

Last month, the SNB pledged to keep interest rates near zero and increase the supply of Swiss francs available to traders.

The bank said that it would significantly increase the supply of liquidity to the Swiss franc money market.

According to regulatory announcements, the Tina Green-backed purchase was concluded on the same day, 5 September 2005, that Caring asked HSBC to supply the £2.25m cash in Swiss francs in Switzerland.

The Bank of England is buying government securities to increase the money supply, while the Swiss National Bank is selling francs to stem a rise in its currency, which has battered its exports.

A coalition government formed in 1981 by the Liberals and the Social Christians pursued a program of restrictive monetarism and structural reform: the Belgian franc was devalued (1982), and the increase in the money supply was brought under control by cutting public services and by ending governmental subsidies to the old industries.

Despite Swiss authorities' efforts to stem the franc's surge, recent actions — including cutting interest rates close to zero last week and raising the supply of cash in the franc money market this week — have practically fallen into a black hole.