#ForexTrivia
The U.S. dollar is the most influential currency in the world. Thus, the U.S. dollar appears on 80% of trades in the Forex market.
It was actually the British pound that was mostly used for international trade. But in 1944, when the U.S. became the largest economy, the world’s advanced economies met in the Bretton Woods conference and decided to peg all foreign currencies to the U.S. dollar.