greenback
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The weaker greenback wasn’t enough to support bitcoin, with the cryptocurrency extending losses to fall 0.4% at around $81,434.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
One reason is that, lacking a viable alternative, the greenback is the world’s “least dirty shirt” for trade and investment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Analysts at BMI, a unit of Fitch Solutions, pointed out that the rupiah is still about 6% weaker against the greenback year-to-date, despite BI’s expanded foreign-exchange support measures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The U.S. dollar rose and gold fell on Tuesday, as the potential for higher interest rates strengthened the greenback and pressured the yellow metal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Even better, every other person “dropped some greenback love,” as Cool Papa would say, down into Wah-Wah Nita’s open guitar case.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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