Category Archives: Forex Glossary

A measure of the value of the U.S. dollar relative to majority of its most significant trading partners. This index is similar to other trade-weighted indexes, which also use exchange rates from the same major currencies.

Government obligations with maturities more than one year, but less than ten years.

The US dollar and the Japanese yen currency pair. In this currency pair the US dollar is the base currency while the Japanese yen is the quoted one.

Government obligations with maturities of ten years or more.