How to Use baht in a Sentence

baht

noun

• The strong baht may add to the case for an eventual rate cut.
  — Suttinee Yuvejwattana, Bloomberg.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• The Thai baht weakened by the most since April to 30.1 per dollar.
  — Prim Chuwiruch, Bloomberg.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• The baht has gained more than 11 percent in the past 12 months, among the best performers in Asia.
  — Bloomberg.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• The Thai currency, the baht, fell about 1 percent against the dollar.
  — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2016
• The Japanese Yen is also down roughly 20% on the year vs. the dollar, while the Euro and the Thai baht are both down more than 15%.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2022
• In 1997, the collapse of the Thai baht set off a financial crisis throughout East Asia.
  — Matt Phillips, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2018
• Last year, the Thai baht was Asia’s strongest currency.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2020
• Hedge funds have been selling currencies such as the Thai baht and the South Korean won.
  — Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 24 May 2022
• The current market cap of the company is about 207 billion baht.
  — Anu Raghunathan, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• And economists expect the central bank to lift interest rates in the coming months, which has helped boost the baht.
  — Saumya Vaishampayan, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
• The new 300 baht fee, or about $9, will be included in the cost of airline tickets, Reuters reported.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2022
• Exports are limp because of the trade war between America and China and the strength of the baht, the local currency.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• Who would ever have guessed the depreciation of the Thai baht could spark such global turmoil?
  — Michael Schuman, Bloomberg.com, 29 June 2017
• The Thai baht has remained little changed during this month’s trade war turbulence, while peers such as the rupee and the won have weakened almost 3%.
  — Fortune, 6 Aug. 2019
• The baht recorded the second-worst performance among Asia’s currencies, and the worst among Southeast Asia, over the same period.
  — Rainer Michael Preiss, Forbes, 7 July 2021
• Taxi fares can simply be rounded up (or have drivers keep the change), and porters will always appreciate tips in baht.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 22 May 2019
• In fact the two that have strengthened the most against the dollar over this period—Thailand’s baht and Israel’s shekel—have done so consistently.
  — The Economist, 8 Dec. 2019
• The baht is headed for a four-day slump, losing 2% against the dollar since Tuesday and offsetting the post-election rally on Monday.
  — Patpicha Tanakasempipat, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2023
• Revenue rose 31% to 7.2 billion baht during the same period.
  — Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
• In the aftermath, inflation approached 10% and the Bank of Thailand (BoT) struggled to restore confidence in the baht.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• Growth has strengthened this year despite a 9 percent appreciation in the baht against the dollar, among the best performers in Asia.
  — Suttinee Yuvejwattana, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• Yuthasak Supasorn, the Tourism Authority of Thailand governor, said the goal is to collect 5 billion baht in the first year.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2021
• In the summer of 1997, a massive crisis was triggered in the region by the devaluation of Thailand’s currency, the baht.
  — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
• Third, the Thai baht has risen sharply against the dollar this year, eroding the kingdom’s fabled selling point as a value-for-money destination.
  — John Reed, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
• According to his research, the yuan has the largest impact on gold among major currencies, followed by Thailand’s baht.
  — Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
• That comes as Thailand’s currency, the baht, has risen 7.5% versus the dollar this year, to be neck-and-neck with a few other currencies as the best-performer in Asia, according to Société Générale .
  — Ese Erheriene, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2017
• The Thai baht—which was punished earlier in the year, falling 11% against the dollar—could end up as another surprise winner, at least relative to the rest of the emerging-market universe, in the months to come.
  — Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
• The state of emergency, nighttime curfew and business closings imposed across the country to fight the virus since late March may cause as much as 3 trillion baht economic damage.
  — Suttinee Yuvejwattana, Bloomberg.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• The initiative was established after the crash of the Thai baht in 1997 triggered a regional financial crisis.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2017
• The Thai baht—nowadays a freely floating currency rather than one with an unsustainable dollar peg—is up 0.6% for the year, according to FactSet.
  — Saumya Vaishampayan, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024