Foreign Exchange Risk Analysis Assignment submitted by: CURRENCY EXPOSURE A currency exposure is any business operation whose profitability can be impacted by a currency exchange rate fluctuation. Currency exposures assume many forms: they can be assets or liabilities; current or committed; contracted or merely forecast; they can be for trade‚ investment or balance sheet purposes. Cases of currency exposure can emerge at any point along the value chain‚ with various
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contrast foreign currency futures and options. Identify situations where you may choose one or the other. When Barings Bank‚ the oldest merchant bank in London‚ collapsed in 1995 after one of the bank’s employees lost £827 million due to speculative investing‚ primarily in futures contracts‚ it illustrated the extreme danger and volatility of derivatives. Options and futures can be used to eliminate‚ reduce‚ hedge and manage risk‚ but can also be highly speculative. Foreign currency futures are
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ISSN 0825-5822 The texts published in the series "Cahiers du CETAI" are solely the responsibility of their authors. Cahier de recherche THE NONORTHODOX CURRENCY BOARDS: THE CASE OF BULGARIA Nikolay NENOVSKY* and Kalin HRISTOV* 2001-01 January 2001 * Bulgarian National Bank‚ Research Department; University of National and World Economy‚ Department of Finance‚ Sofia‚ Bulgaria. Copyright © 2001. Centre d’études en administration internationale (CETAI)‚ École des Hautes Études commerciales
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Carry Trades and Currency Crashes Markus K. Brunnermeier‚ Princeton University‚ NBER‚ and CEPR Stefan Nagel‚ Stanford University and NBER Lasse H. Pedersen‚ New York University‚ NBER‚ and CEPR I. Introduction This paper studies crash risk of currencies for funding‐constrained speculators in an attempt to shed new light on the major currency puzzles. Our starting point is the currency carry trade‚ which consists of selling low interest rate currencies—“funding currencies”—and investing in
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4a The currency regime adopted by China is neither fixed nor flexible exchange rate system. China has announced in 2005 the “end of its firm peg against the dollar‚ instead allowing it to trade within a narrow band against a basket of currencies.” China regime is managed floating system where the currency increases very slowly year by year and the China government prevent the currency from changing quickly in the short term. The reason why Chinese government intervene in the currency market is
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AFM 322 Hedging Currency Risk at AIFS 1. Case Synopsis Christopher Archer-Lock and Becky Tabaczynski both work for American Institute for Foreign Study (“AIFS”). Archer-Lock is the controller of AIFS and Tabaczynski is the CFO of AIFS’s high school travel division ACIS. AIFS a student exchange organization that organizes educational and cultural exchange programs throughout the world. Founded in the U.S. in 1964‚ AIFS has annual revenues of close to $200 million and sent more than 50‚000 students
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Bloomberg User Manual School of Economics and Finance Faculty of Business and Economics University of Hong Kong Chapter 6 Pricing and valuation for derivatives Copyright © 2013 by School of Economics and Finance‚ University of Hong Kong All content in this document (the “Content”) is the property of the School of Economics and Finance‚ University of Hong Kong (the “Publisher”) and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. You may print or download Content for your own personal
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CHAPTER 14 INTEREST RATE AND CURRENCY SWAPS SUGGESTED ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS TO END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS QUESTIONS 1. Describe the difference between a swap broker and a swap dealer. Answer: A swap broker arranges a swap between two counterparties for a fee without taking a risk position in the swap. A swap dealer is a market maker of swaps and assumes a risk position in matching opposite sides of a swap and in assuring that each counterparty fulfills its contractual obligation
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which it can pass on to its customers. If Wal-Mart were a country then it would be China’s eighth largest trading partner ahead of Russia‚ Australia‚ and Canada. Wal-Mart’s non-Chinese owned suppliers operating in China number nearly 5‚000 and all of them benefit from a low valued yuan compared to the dollar. The 176 million worldwide customers of Wal-Mart also benefit from the low valued yuan. With nearly 70% of Wal-Mart’s products coming from China a sharp increase in the value of the yuan
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