Examples of Hard currency in a sentence
Hard currency sovereign spreads widened 275 bps to end the period at 626 bps over US Treasuries, while high yield spreads ended the period just inside of 1,100 bps, pricing in significant default risk.
Hard currency debt advanced 5.64%, mainly driven by the rally in US Treasury yields, which fell to multi-year lows in the period.
Hard currency was only useful in local transactions and in relatively small amounts.
Emerging markets bonds also had a very decent quarter with Hard currency bonds returning +5.4% and local currencies +3.6%.In commodities, the broader index returned +8.2%.
According to Nugel (2012) as currencies depreciated in one country deposit will be reduced since investors tend to withdraw deposit and exchanged to keep it by appreciating currency (Hard currency) or invest in other form of investment rather than bank deposit.