stabilization fund

American  

noun

1. a monetary reserve established by a country to provide funds for maintaining the official exchange rates of its currency by equalizing the buying and selling of foreign exchange.

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Example Sentences

Moody’s said the ratings could be upgraded if the city maintains sustainable, structurally balanced budgets, builds stronger reserves and a mechanism to make regular deposits to its Revenue Stabilization Fund, and reduces its fixed costs ratio closer to an Aa median of about 11%.

From Barron's

The group is known by market players as the “national team,” and it functions as a market stabilization fund.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the Treasury Department has a tool at the ready, the roughly $200 billion Exchange Stabilization Fund, that it can use to buy and sell foreign currencies to influence exchange rates.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From MarketWatch

U.S. officials said it would use the Treasury’s rainy-day facility, called the Exchange Stabilization Fund, to finance the swap.

From The Wall Street Journal