Plaza Agreement

…United States) met at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in 1985. In the “Plaza Agreement,” they declared their intention to bring the dollar down to a more competitive level, if necessary by official sales of dollars on exchange markets.

…finance (1982–86), Takeshita signed the Plaza Accord, an agreement between the world’s wealthy nations to lower the value of the dollar in an effort to reduce trade imbalances. The move sent Japan’s currency, the yen, soaring and led to a series of interest rate cuts. As a result, the country…