BLADES‚ INC. CASE Assessment of Future Exchange Rate Movements As the chief financial officer of Blades‚ Inc.‚ Ben Holt is pleased that his current system of exporting “Speedos” to Thailand seems to be working well. Blades’ primary customer in Thailand‚ a retailer called Entertainment Products‚ has committed itself to purchasing a fixed number of Speedos annually for the next 3 years at a fixed price denominated in baht‚ Thailand’s currency. Furthermore‚ Blades is using a Thai supplier for some
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Identify the main factors that led to the collapse of the Thai baht in 1997. An export fed growth spurt spurred on huge investments in property. This in turn increased property values. An already stressed stock market was further weakened by the collapse of Thailand’s major bank (Finance One). This coupled with the unsustainable peg on the baht to the dollar contributed to the collapse. Do you think the sudden collapse of the Thai baht can be explained by the purchasing power parity theorem? The
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BF2207 International Finance - Assignment 1A: Question 1: As an established brand in the United States (US) faced with falling demand for their primary product ‚ the primary objective that Blades have to meet is to increase their profits in order to keep their shareholders happy and consequently ‚ to keep their investments in the company. With a falling demand‚ a way to improve the profits earned would be to lower the costs in producing their products. As such‚ the prima facie advantage that
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Have you ever imagined Bangkok without any traffic jams? Well‚ I have‚ many times. The amount of transport vehicles in Bangkok adds up to a striking 6.9 million‚ as for the rest of Thailand it comes to 23.4million in total. According to data and statistics from World Health Organization (WHO)‚ the number of traffic accidents (2012) in Bangkok and in the rest of the country is more or less the same. In Bangkok more personal cars are involved in accidents‚ while in the countryside pickups feature more
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27 มิถุนายน 2552 เวลา 18.00 น. แฟนๆกว่า 12‚000 คน รวมตัวกันที่อิมแพคอารีน่า เมืองทองธานี กรุงเทพฯ ประเทศไทย เพื่อร่วมมันส์ในคอนเสิร์ต ’YAMAHA Presents TVXQ! The 3rd Asia Tour Concert MIROTIC in Bangkok’ โดยในคอนเสิร์ตนี้นับเป็นการทัวร์เอเชียคอนเสิร์ตเป็นครั้งที่ 3 ของบรรดาเทพทั้ง 5 ดงบังชินกิ ประกอบไปด้วย ยูโนยุนโฮ (Uknow Yunho) ยองอุงแจจุง (Youngwoong Jaejoong) มิคกี้ยูชอน (Micky Yoochun) เซียจุนซู (Xiah Junsu) และ ชเวกังชางมิน (Choikang Changmin) ซึ่งประเทศไทยถือเป็นหนึ่งในนั้นที่แฟนๆได้มีโอกาสร่วมมันส์ไปพ
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MiniCase 2 Blades‚ Inc. Chap 5 1. If Blades uses call options to hedge its yen payables‚ should it use the call option with the exercise price of $0.00756 or the call option with the exercise price of $0.00792? Describe the tradeoff. 2. Should Blades allow its yen position to be unhedged? Describe the tradeoff. Chap 6 1. Did the intervention effort by the Thai government constitute direct or indirect intervention? Explain. 2. Did the intervention by the
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A case study on Blade Int Corporation about Inflationary effect 1. How could a higher level of inflation in Thailand affect Blades (assume U.S inflation remains constant)? Although the Blades have already a decreasing demand for “Speedos” and the rate of inflation is high relative to U.S inflation rate. It will affect the current account of Thailand which would be expected to decrease and due to this scenario the exports of demand for other countries will also decline. 2. How would Blades
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New Year’s Day ------------------------------------------------- Every country has New Year’s Day. Most countries celebrate New Year on the first of January‚ the same as Thailand and Australia. However‚ in Thailand they are celebrated New Year by themselves because they have a second New Year called Song Kran Day or Thai New Year’s Day. This essay will look at the similarities and differences between Thai and Australia New Year. ------------------------------------------------- There are similarities
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For the United States‚ they had good leaders like John F‚ Kennedy and Martin Luther King who made important contributions to their people. Same as Thailand‚ we also had a plenty of good leaders like King Taksin Maharat who fought against Burmese to take Thailand back from them and reunited Thai people. That is why I consider him as an important leader because without him‚ there would not be Thailand today. King Taksin Maharat was born during late Ayutthaya period. At that time‚ Ayuthaya was a capital
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Company Situation The company‚ Ganesh Intertrade Co.‚ Ltd. is the first and only manufacturer and distributor of "sterilized culinary innovation" since 2005 through the development of non-refrigerated products under the “O-CHA” brand with Thai sterilized deserts such as Durian egg custard‚ Sticky rice with Durian in coconut cream‚ Taco Waterchesnut Corn Taro‚etc. It was the big opportunity for O-CHA in the past that realized most of other dessert manufacturers exported their products in form of
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