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Market Hedge Money Market Hedge Options Market Hedge Hedging Foreign Currency Payables Forward Contracts Money Market Instruments Currency Options Contracts Cross-Hedging Minor Currency Exposure Hedging Contingent Exposure Hedging Recurrent Exposure with Swap Contracts Hedging through Invoice Currency Hedging via Lead and Lag Exposure Netting International Finance in Practice: Riding Shifting Waves of Currency Should the Firm Hedge? International Finance in Practice: To Hedge
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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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Foreign exchange dealers must cope with exchange risk‚ because of the foreign currency positions they take. They also bear credit risks since the counterparties to the trades they enter into may not honor their obligations. They can cope with currency risk by using forward contracts and currency options (see Chapter 10)‚ widening their bid-ask quotes‚ and limiting the position they are willing to take in any one currency. They can limit credit risk by restricting the position they are willing to
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Perspective Correlation Products Building Blocks: Vol Products • Realized variance: RV • 1 = n ∑ T t =1 St (ln( )) S t −1 2 OTC products to trade realized variance: – Delta-hedged options (straddles) – Volatility swap – Variance swap Listed Products – Futures on realized variance • Implied Correlation • From index and single-stock implied vols‚ one can extract the average pairwise Implied Correlation (= IC) embedded in option prices by the market. Let FVV = Fair
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by saving the cost of the commission involved in selling a currency forward‚ it would increase its profit margin. This strategy of course‚ backfired. b) The appreciation of the euro relative to the U.S. dollar took many people by surprise. Its rise has been attributed to record U.S. foreign trade deficits and pessimism about the future value of the dollar. c) In addition to using forward contracts‚ Volkswagen could use currency swaps‚ and lead and lag payables and receivables. Answer4: The
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RISK MANAGEMENT BACKGROUND With the demise of the foreign currency exchange rates during the 1970’s and after the collapse of the Bretton Woods Agreement‚ the world economy has undergone drastic changes. This has signaled an increase in currency market volatility and trading opportunity. The foreign exchange market has played a vital role in the last decade or so in guiding the purchase and sale of goods‚ services and raw materials globally. The market directly affects each
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Daniel Pinga AEM 4290 General Motors‚ JPY-USD Exposure Executive Summary General Motors Corporation‚ the world’s largest automaker‚ has an extensive global outreach‚ which places the firm in competition with automakers worldwide‚ and subjects itself to significant exchange rate exposure. In particular‚ despite most of its revenues and production being derived from North America‚ depreciating yen rates pose problems for the firm indirectly through economic exposure. While GM possesses ‘passive’
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the quota of majority of Crysler is found again of forehead‚ over that to a new market‚ also to a new coin with all those that can be the risks over how commercial also those financial. Nevertheless‚ right now‚ the exchange rate between these two currencies is 1 euro =1.3118 dollars so in order to make easier the case we will use 1.31 to round it up. The politics of the Group related to the management of the risk of change foresee‚ as a rule‚ the coverage of the future commercial flows that you/they
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need to hedge Japanese yen B. a use for the Euro‚ a neutral currency C. less profit D. a use for gold to protect against currency fluctuations E. more profit 2. The _____________ is a market for converting the currency of one country into that of another. A. foreign exchange market B. cross-cultural interchange C. financial barter market D. monetary replacement market E. international currency spot market 3. The rate at which one currency is converted into another is called the ___________. A. replacement
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