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Supply and demand influence how much a currency is worth. Learn how exchange rates affect producers and consumers.
A vendor arranges eggs on a 100 billion Zimbabwean dollar note in Harare, on July 22, 2008. At the time, an egg cost ZW$35 billion.
Source: Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters
Source: European Union; European Commission.
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