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    Financial Strategies

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    corporation to be the biggest private employer. Sam Walton was the founder of Wal-Mart in 1962 and the corporation has remain a family tradition business which the Walton family own 48% stake in Wal-Mart and they have traded publicly on the New York stock exchange. Due to corporation to be the biggest grocery retailer in America with $258 billion dollar sales in 2009‚ it is one of the world most valuable companies. Wal-Mart operates with 55 different names in 15 different countries and they are Wal-Mart

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    Chapter 5 Exchange Rate Systems QUESTIONS 3. What is likely to be the most credible exchange rate system? Answer: Among fixed exchange rate systems‚ a monetary union with a common currency is likely the most credible exchange rate system. 8. How can a central bank peg the value of its currency relative to another currency? Answer: To peg the value of its currency to another currency‚ the government must make a market in the two currencies. If there is excess supply of the foreign currency

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    Ch004

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    _____________ 1. Covered Interest Parity (CIP) is best defined as: A) When a government brings its domestic interest rate in line with other major financial markets B) When the central bank of a country brings its domestic interest rate in line with its major trading partners C) An arbitrage condition that must hold when international financial markets are in equilibrium D) None of the above 2. When Covered Interest Parity (CIP) holds between two different countries X and Y‚ your decision to invest

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    Transaction Exposure

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    exposure The transaction exposure component of the foreign exchange rates is also referred to as a short-term economic exposure. This relates to the risk attached to specific contracts in which the company has already entered that result in foreign exchange exposures. A company may have a transaction exposure if it is either on the buy side or sell side of a business transaction. Any transaction that leads to an inflow or outflow of a foreign currency results in a transaction exposure. For example

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    Chap 10

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    of the World Bank The Collapse of the Fixed Exchange Rate System The Floating Exchange Rate Regime The Jamaica Agreement Exchange Rates Since 1973 Country Focus: The U.S. Dollar‚ Oil Prices‚ and Recycling Petrodollars Fixed Versus Floating Exchange Rates The Case for Floating Exchange Rates The Case for Fixed Exchange Rates Who is Right? Exchange Rate Regimes in Practice Pegged Exchange Rates Currency Boards CRISIS MANAGEMENT

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    Multiple Choice Questions (5 Points Each): Q. 1 Under the gold standard of currency exchange that existed from 1879 to 1914‚ an ounce of gold cost $20.67 in U.S. dollars and £4.2474 in British pounds. Therefore‚ the exchange rate of pounds per dollar under this fixed exchange regime was (a) £4.8665/$. (b) £0.2055/$. (c) always changing because the price of gold was always changing. (d) unknown because there is not enough information to answer this question. Answer:

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    Chapter 15 Accounting in a Global Market QUESTIONS 1. Foreign currency exchange rates are used to express transactions in local currency in terms of U.S. dollars and vice versa. For example‚ if the exchange rate is $1 = 1.65 DM (Deutsche mark)‚ and if one wishes to change 100 U.S. dollars into Deutsche marks‚ one will receive $100 ( 1.65 = 165 DM‚ and if one wishes to change 100 DM to U.S. dollars‚ one will receive 100 DM/1.65 = $60.61. 2. A foreign currency transaction occurs when a transaction

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    IntroductionThis report is to check the hedging strategy that was used and lead to the huge loss of CITIC Pacific Limited and point out the importance of managing foreign exchange exposure through select appropriate hedging strategies. The huge loss of CITIC Pacific Limited and its cause is discussed in the first part. The importance of hedging and the tools of hedging are respectively reviewed in part two and part three. Finally‚ suggestions are given out on how to design proper hedging strategies

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    MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION

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    CORPORATIONS (MNC) INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT LECTURER: NEENA DAS A/P GOGILADAS DATE ASSIGNED: 13th AUGUST 2013 DATE DUE: 27TH MARCH 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. 3 TYPES OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE EXPOSURE. 5 Transaction Exposure 5 Translation Exposure. 6 Economic Exposure. 7 REASONS FOR MNC TO EXPAND GLOBALLY 8 To Seek for New Markets 8 To Seek New Resources 8 To Seek New Technology 9 To Seek Production Efficiency 9 Global Diversification. 9 FACTORS DISTINGUISH MULTINATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FROM DOMESTIC

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    Interest Rate Parity

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    are capital mobility and perfect substitutability of domestic and foreign assets. Given foreign exchange market equilibrium‚ the interest rate parity condition implies that the expected return on domestic assets will equal the exchange rate-adjusted expected return on foreign currency assets. Investors cannot then earn arbitrage profits by borrowing in a country with a lower interest rate‚ exchanging for foreign currency‚ and investing in a foreign country with a higher interest rate‚ due to gains or losses

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