1930 and Gross Domestic Product

APPENDIX
CHART 1.1: FX Market Share by Bank
FX Market Share by Bank (2006) Others; 17,52% MS; 2,90% ABN; 3,20% DB; 19,26% ML; 3,68% JPM; 3,89% BoA; 3,97% HSBC; 5,04% GS; 5,25% RBS; 6,43% Barclays; 6,61% UBS; 11,86% Citi; 10,39% CHART 1.2: Transaction Type Transaction Type 1 FX Swaps; 55% Spot; 34% Outright Forwards; 11% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 1 CHART 1.3: Currency Share
Single Currency Involvement

GBP 8% CAD AUD 2% CHF 3% 3% Other 11% USD 44% JPY 10% EUR 19% CHART 1.4: Pair Currency Share
Currency Pair Share Other; 25% EUR/USD; 28% EUR/JPY; 3% USD/CAD; 4% USD/CHF; 4% AUD/USD; 5% USD/JPY; 17% GBP/USD; 14% 2 CHART 1.4: Major Foreign Reserves by Country MajorCountries and Foreign Reserve Amount
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1200

1000 909 800 600 450
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361 267 244 204 137 135 121 115 82 65

USA 200 0
China Japan Eurozone Russia Republic of South Korea China (Taiwan) India Singapore Hong
Kong Brazil Germany UK *** Major Foreign reserves are obvious in Export driven countries. CHART 1.5: Foreign
Reserves by Currency
Foreign Reserves By Currency %
100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Other CHF FRF JPY GBP DEM EUR UDS 3 CHART 2.1 Nominal and Real Exchange Rates
Nominal XR [Base 2000 = 100]
140 Australia NNAU Austria NNAT Belgium NNBE Canada NNCA Denmark NNDK Euro area
NNXM Finland NNFI France NNFR Germany NNDE Greece NNGR Hong Kong SAR NNHK
Ireland NNIE Italy NNIT Japan NNJP Korea NNKR Netherlands NNNL New Zealand NNNZ
Norway NNNO Portugal NNPT Singapore NNSG Spain NNES Sweden NNSE Switzerland
NNCH Taiwan (China) NNTW United Kingdom NNGB United States NNUS 130 120 110 100 90 80 70 ja nv ­0 av 0 r­0 ju 0 il0 oc 0 t­0 ja 0 nv ­0 av 1 r­0 ju 1 il0 oc 1 tja 01 nv ­0 av 2 r­0 ju 2 il0 oc 2 t­0 ja 2 nv ­0 av 3 r­0 ju 3 il0 oc 3 tja 03 nv ­0 av 4 r­0