forint

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The dollar fell 3.4 percent to 198.46 forint, after declining 5.3 percent Tuesday on expectations that a deal would be reached.

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  • Snow began to fall, in flakes the size of five-forint pieces. —  Omni: November 1994
  • Increasing confidence of the international capital markets in Hungary could lead to the strengthening of the forint, thereby making the huge numbers of foreign currency borrowers into winners of the programme. —  Budapest Times
  • The Senior Facilities provide for variable quarterly interest payments at a rate equal to the sum of the applicable margin plus EURIBOR (or BUBOR, if a loan is denominated in Hungarian forint) for the applicable quarterly interest period plus any mandatory costs.
  • When the pengo was replaced in August 1946 by the forint, the total value of all Hungarian banknotes in circulation amounted to one-thousandth of one US dollar. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • If the forint were to weaken even only slightly further from an all-time low of 303.50, the pain could spread. —  News on www.kyivpost.com
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  1. Hungarian, from Italian fiorino, florin; see florin.
 

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