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swap

verb as in exchange

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One week later, the Treasury announced a $20 billion currency swap financed through America’s Exchange Stabilization Fund, which Argentina used to make its Nov. 1 IMF debt payment.

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A north London school has swapped truancy fines for parents for education awareness courses.

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Meanwhile, the cost of insuring those bonds using credit-default swaps also has climbed, with negative sentiments from different groups of investors feeding into each other.

That same year, Riyadh helped broker a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine.

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As of Friday afternoon, Oracle’s credit default swap levels were at 115, while both Microsoft and Amazon were at 35.

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