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The Gulf currencies pegged to the dollar

Name the Gulf states whose currency is pegged to the US dollar

Key terms
Conventional peg
An exchange rate that the authorities fix to one foreign currency, or to a basket of them, and hold by buying and selling foreign exchange, while keeping the right to change the rate.
Basket peg
A fixed exchange rate set against a weighted mix of several foreign currencies rather than against one, so the rate moves against each single currency as they move against one another.