The Foreign Exchange Market What is the Foreign Exchange Market? The Foreign Exchange Market is the financial market in which currencies are bought and sold that is a transaction is entered into where a given amount of currency is exchanged for another amount of currency. The need for the Foreign Exchange Market (commonly referred to as the Forex Market) developed to facilitate International trade where currencies were required to be settled from the country of both the importer and the exporter
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The foreign exchange market (forex‚ FX‚ or currency market) is a global decentralized market for the trading of currencies. The main participants in this market are the larger international banks. Financial centers around the world function as anchors of trading between a wide range of different types of buyers and sellers around the clock‚ with the exception of weekends. EBS and Reuters’ dealing 3000 are two main interbank FX trading platforms. The foreign exchange market determines the relative
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Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Transactional and Translational Exposure Problem Statement In September of 2001 General Motors (GM) was faced with a billion dollar exposure to the Canadian dollar. At the time‚ North America represented approximately three-quarters of GM’s total sales and this large exposure to the CAD could significantly affect GM’s financial results. GM had a passive strategy of hedging 50% of its exposure; this paper explores the impact of
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How to Manage Employees The competition between the enterprises in the final analysis is competition. How to effectively stimulate the enthusiasm of employees‚ make employees more loyal to the enterprise‚ to finish the work? The competition between the enterprises in the final analysis is competition. How to effectively stimulate the enthusiasm of employees‚ make employees more loyal to the enterprise‚ to finish the work‚ is each enterprise leaders and often pointless to solve a problem. A‚ focusing
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Case Questions and Answers 1. How significant an impact do foreign exchange gains and losses have on corporate performance at XJP? What is your opinion of how they structure and manage their currency exposures? During 2003‚ the dramatic raise in the value of Euro against the dollar resulted in foreign exchange losses of Rmb 75 billion‚ out of which Rmb 60 billion were charged as 2003 cost of hedging. The year of 2003 proved to be fortunate for the XJP Company‚ housing fund adjustment and
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How is foreign exchange risk managed? An empirical study applied to two Swiss companies. Abstract This paper investigates how two Swiss companies manage their foreign exchange risk and compares the results to theoretical findings and to previous empirical research. We find significant differences in the foreign exchange risk management policies‚ notably in the choice of the type of exposure to cover and in the hedging instruments used. Consistent with previous research‚ forwards
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET BEHAVIUOR AND ITS MANAGEMNT IN THE POST-REFORM PERIOD: THE INDIAN EXPERIENCES ABSTRACT * Dr. Arabi.U The Indian foreign exchange market has operated in a liberlised environment for more than a decade. A cautious and well-caliberated approach was followed while liberlising the foreign exchange market and the focus was on gradually dismantling controls and providing an enabling environment to all entities engaged in external transactions. Hence‚ in view of the high volumes
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decide between two options on how to proceed; was it worth the costs to increase the size of GM’s hedge position beyond the standard policy or should GM Argentina rely on other approaches to cope with the expected devaluation? Appraisal of GM’s Passive Hedging Strategy GM’s passive hedging strategy is reflective of its policy to focus on its underlying business rather than speculate on the movements of foreign currency. There are two main types of currency exposure. The first being economic risk
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Introduction 1 1.1 How do we identify exposure 2 1.2 Company’s activities that causes exposure 3 2.0 The Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on 8 Operational Cash Flow 3.0 Guidelines for corporate forecasting of foreign exchange rates 10 - Fundamental forecasting 11 - Technically forecasting 14 4.0 Tools and instrument for managing foreign exchange risk 17 5.0 Non-derivative hedge of foreign exchange risk management 20 6.0
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT 2 Introduction One of the largest businesses carried out by the commercial bank is foreign trading. The trade among various countries falls for close link between the parties dealing in trade. The situation calls for expertise in the field of foreign operations. The bank‚ which provides such operation‚ is referred to as rending international banking operation. Mainly transactions with overseas countries in respect of import‚ export and foreign remittance come
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