is the price of one country’s currency in terms of another country’s currency Quoted exchange rates can be either direct or indirect‚ Direct: home currency per unit of foreign currency 39 Rupees per US Dollars 80 Rupees per Pound Indirect: foreign currency per unit of home currency 0.0255102 US Dollar per Indian Rupee 0.491594 Pound per Indian Rupee Appreciation of Currency Currency Appreciation means that the given currency has become more valuable with
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CASE: Managing Offshore Investments: Who’s Currency?1 The Offshore Investment Fund (OIF) was incorporated in Fairfield‚ Connecticut‚ for the sole purpose of allowing U.S. shareholders to invest in Maltese securities. The Fund is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The custodian of the Fund is the Shady Rest Bank and Trust Company of Connecticut (“Shady Rest”)‚ which keeps the accounts of the Fund. The question very quickly arose as to the currency in which the books of the fund were to be kept
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need to understand the pegging. Pegging is an idea of fixing the exchange rate of currency with the value of another’s country currency or to a basket of value‚ generally a small economy peg its currency with the currency of big economy so as to stabilize the value of the currency. The main issue to deal with are 1) The impact of pegging on china and other economies 2) Why China never wanted to De peg its currency? 3) The basis on which De-pegging should be done? 4) Other competitive advantage
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Functional Currency Determination Case 10/10/2011 ABSTRACT In the dynamic global market‚ companies of all sizes‚ whether small‚ medium or transnationals interact with foreign companies and in most cases operate with currencies that are different from those that they commonly use. Foreign companies use foreign currencies for their expenditures‚ hedging strategies‚ and investing and financing activities. As a result these business activities must be reflected on the financial statements in the
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Chapter 9 Mini Case – McDonald’s Corporation’s British Pound Exposure 1. How does the cross currency swap effectively hedge the three primary exposures McDonalds has relative to its British subsidiary. In general‚ cross currency swap is a contract to swap currencies of debt service obligation (Eiteman‚ Stonehill‚ & Moffett‚ p. 245). For example‚ McDonalds needs to swap pound denominated fixed interest rate and adopt floating interest rate from the US headquarter. The need to enter into swap agreement
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changing due to changes in currency exchange rates. It is the risk that an investor will have to close out a long or short position in a foreign currency at a loss due to an adverse movement in exchange rates. Foreign Exchange Risk is also known as "currency risk" or "exchange-rate risk”. This risk usually affects businesses that export and/or import‚ but it can also affect investors making international investments. For example‚ if money must be converted to another currency to make a certain investment
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to fluctuate according to the foreign exchange market. Free floating exchange rate is determined by the interaction of currency supplies and demands with no government intervention. It always termed “self- correcting’ as if any differences in supply and demand‚ the exchange rate will automatically be corrected in the market. For instance‚ if demand for one country’s currency is low‚ its value will decrease and vice versa. Thus the imported goods will become more expensive and stimulating demand
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If you have ever traveled to a country that does not use U.S currency‚ then you had to exchange your U.S. dollars into the country’s currency that you have just traveled to. You may notice that your U.S dollars have gotten you more or less of the other currency. This means you have just been affected by the exchange rate. If you have 1‚000 U.S dollars it does not mean you will have an equal amount in another country’s currency. Exchange rates effects our economy greatly‚ because we have
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between an optimum currency area and a fixed exchange rate system. Optimum currency area is when a group of nation currencies are linked to through permanently fixed exchange rates and the conditions that would make such an area optimum. Fixed is when value of a country ’s currency‚ in relation to the value of other currencies‚ is maintained at a fixed conversion rate. What are the main advantages and disadvantages of an optimum currency area? The main advantage of optimum currency area is that more
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MIDTERM REVIEW QUESTIONS NOVEMBER 2010: Zahlungsbilanz und Devisenmarkt (1) What accounts for most of the activity in the foreign exchange market? (a) Inter-bank trading (b) Government transfers (c) Sale of good and services (d) Government purchase of assets (e) Foreign imports Answer: A (2) A country’s current account (a) balance equals the change in its net foreign wealth. (b) balance equals the change in its foreign wealth. (c) surplus equals the change in its foreign wealth. (d)
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