The currency pair shows how many Japanese yen, the quote currency, are needed to purchase one U.S. dollar, the base currency. The symbol for the Japanese yen (JPY) is ¥. USD/JPY is the ticker ...

The yen was adopted as Japan's official currency ... Sweden kept things simple by using "kr" as the currency's symbol. The original krona was worth 1/2480 kilograms of pure gold. ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The U.S. dollar fell to a 13-year low against the yen and weakened against the euro Wednesday, a day after the Federal Reserve cut its key short-term interest rates to ...