In September 1985, the Group of Five, or G-5, countries—the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France—meeting at the Plaza Hotel in New York announced the signing of the Plaza Accord. One main purpose of this agreement...

The agreement of the GROUP OF FIVE meeting at the Plaza Hotel, New York, in September 1985 to intervene in exchange markets to bring down the value of the US dollar. $12 billion was spent by central banks in the first few weeks of the agreement. Within...

The Plaza Accord or Plaza Agreement was an agreement signed on September 22, 1985 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City by 5 nations - France, West Germany, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom. The five agreed to, amongst others, depreciate...

Do French seek target zones for oil prices? What the French have in mind for the oil markets gets its roots from the Plaza Accord of 1985. The world's leading industrial nations agreed then to coordinate interest rate and currency policies...

Ten years ago today, a group of top policymakers from the richest industrial nations met at New York's Plaza Hotel. They struck an agreement that signaled a change in America's economic course -- a pact to drive down the value of the dollar. ...

At 5:30 a.m. on Oct. 6, two men were shot and robbed in Prospect Park, just down the hill from the Vale of Cashmere, really just a few dozen feet from the zoo and the heavy traffic of Flatbush Avenue. “The men were engaged in...