United States dollar

At the time of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, the American continent had been discovered but there was no American state or dollar. The Ottomans, who ruled from the Atlantic Ocean to the gates of Vienna, had an extremely serious "money" issue.  

The dollar fell broadly on March 30 and with just one more day left in March headed for its worst quarter in five years against a basket of currencies, as investors wound back their expectations for U.S. interest rate rises in 2016.

Emerging equities scored their biggest gains in seven weeks and currencies rallied on March 17 after a dovish U.S. Federal Reserve message, with even South African markets shrugging off local political tensions.

The price of gold continued to drop for second day in a row. The precious metal lost 0.1 per cent as it fell to 1,262.90 per ounce in the markets. The gold futures contract for April lost 1.10 US dollars, a second drop after its Monday fall by 0.5 per cent.

Serbia's Prime Minister and the Serbian Fiscal Council expressed concern after the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter of a point for the first time in almost a decade. Around 30 per cent of Serbian public debt is in dollars.

Within the framework of the U.S. Federal Reserve's (the Fed) normalization process, the uncertainty on when the first rate hike will happen is continuing, thus allowing several local currencies, including the Turkish Lira, to catch their breaths and take a break in their losses during the month of October. 

Bulgaria's central bank announced on Thursday that it will put into circulation a coin with par value of BGN 2 on December 7, 2015.

The two-lev banknotes issues 1999 and 2005 will remain a legal tender alongside the new coin until they wear out and become unfit for circulation.

The markets in Turkey are closed due to the ongoing Eid al-Adha holiday, but the U.S. dollar's rise against the Turkish Lira continued for another day on Sept. 24, breaking a historic record at 3.0738 liras per dollar as the forex trade continued at the international markets.

The holiday in Turkey started Sept. 23 in the afternoon. 

ISIS released pictures of their new gold dinar coins; the silver dirham and copper fulus claiming their goal was to break the capitalist world! The irony is that the brutal Islamist terrorist state still pay their jihadist murderers in US dollars! The currency will hold value only within the ‘borders’ of the pseudo caliphate state, as ISIS is a terrorist group.

The only remedy for struggling Turkish airliners, which have not benefited from the drop in oil prices due to existing hedging deals with fuel companies, amid the dramatic rise in the U.S. dollar is to sell tickets in the same currency, according to low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines' Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Serhan Ulga.