With a fixed exchange rate, the RBA:
A) had to buy Australian dollars when the currency threatened to depreciate.
B) had to sell Australian dollars when the currency threatened to appreciate.
C) would alter the domestic money supply when they intervened to keep the Australian dollar at its fixed rate.
D) had strong control over domestic interest rates.
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