1.   You can buy foreign currency at the post office.

2.   They will therefore sell sterling and buy foreign currencies.

3.   Among Southeast Asian currencies, the Malaysian ringgit and the Indonesian rupiah rallied amid speculation central banks in those countries bought their currencies to stem their decline.

4.   As a matter of policy the Bank of Japan does not comment on whether it is buying a currency.

5.   As the peso declined, the Philippine central bank began buying the currency.

6.   Banks have prepared for the uncertainties by buying foreign currencies over the last two weeks to reduce the risk of holding lira amid political flux, traders said.

7.   Bonds also got support from a stronger yen, which rose against the dollar as the Bank of Japan did not step in and buy the currency.

8.   A currency option gives a purchaser the right -- but not the obligation -- to buy currency at a specific exchange rate on a future date.

9.   Currency options give a purchaser the right to buy a currency at a specific exchange rate on a future date.