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International exchange market (Currency exchange) — is the exchange, where operations on purchase and sale of currency take place between participants of the Forex market; Currency operations – contracts of participants of currency market on purchase and sale and settlement, conversion operations etc.; Currency rate (currency quote) — the price of currency unit of one country expressed in currency unit of another country. Open position – is the trade for purchase/sale, which is not closed and is present on market.
The indicator showing the number of work positions emerged for a month in the USA without account of farm positions is called Nonfarm Payrolls. Farming has too heavy season fluctuations, therefore, it was removed from structure of the present indicator to make the result smoother and more indicating. Payroll represents statement for accruing wages to American hired men. This information is submitted to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics which then published it in the monthly employment situation summary in the USA. This report is issued on the first Friday of each month, at 08:30 EST (New York). The information is collected by state agencies from more than 400 000 non-farm enterprises. It is almost 40% of all existing work positions in the country. This statistics includes new work places created in such branches as construction, transport, real estate, finance, mining industry, trade, services etc.
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