Market History of Foreign Exchange Foreign Exchange Transactions Foreign Exchange Quotations Interpreting Foreign Exchange Quotations Forward, Futures, and Options Markets International Money Market Origins and Development Money Market Interest Rates Among Countries Standardizing Global Bank Regulations International Credit Market Syndicated Loans Impact of the Credit Crisis on the Credit Market International Bond Market Eurobond Market Development of Other Bond Markets International
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Seppo Honkapohja The 1980s financial liberalization in the Nordic countries Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 36 • 2012 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2190375 The 1980s financial liberalization in the Nordic countries1 Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 36/2012 Seppo Honkapohja Monetary Policy and Research Department Abstract The financial liberalization in the four Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) that took place
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5. Foreign Currency Futures Futures contracts are designed to minimize the problems arising from default risk and to facilitate liquidity in secondary dealing. In the United States, the most important market for foreign currency futures is the International Money Market (IMM) of Chicago, a division of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The best way to understand these contracts is to compare them with forward transactions. Like forward contracts, currency futures contracts are, in principle
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When it comes to FX trading, traders have two sets of currencies that come in a pair. The fluctuations in the exchange rate between these two currencies are where a trader looks to make profit on the Exchange Market. If trader believes that the foreign currency will appreciate against the USD, the trader’s profits will rise with every increase in the exchange price. However if the foreign currency were to fall against the dollar, than the trader would take a loss. Seems simple enough, however traders
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CHAPTER 7 Swaps Practice Questions Problem 7.1. Companies A and B have been offered the following rates per annum on a $20 million five-year loan: | |Fixed Rate |Floating Rate | |Company A |5.0% |LIBOR+0.1% | |Company B |6.4%
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John Maynard's Keynes theory thought if the government invested in it economy it would boost the economy. Ways to make sure this happens are opening new businesses so more people will have jobs, also he thought that the government must lower its interest rates because if they are low organisations can extract bank loans more easily and they can also use these loans to develop more outlets, if organisations continue to take out bank loans. This can be used to increase employees wages so employees can
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History of Foreign Exchange Foreign Exchange Transactions Interpreting Foreign Exchange Quotations Currency Futures and Options Markets International Money Market Origins and Development Standardizing Global Bank Regulations International Credit Market Syndicated Loans International Bond Market Eurobond Market Development of Other Bond Markets Comparing Interest Rates Among Currencies International Stock Markets Issuance of Foreign Stock in the U.S. Issuance of Stock in Foreign
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Analyse the effects of changes in the exchange rate of the Australian dollar against other currencies on the Australian economy The exchange rate is the rate at which a unit of domestic currency is exchanged for a given amount of a foreign currency. The exchange rate may be measured bilaterally, against another currency, usually that of a trading partner, e.g. the US, or it may be measured as the Trade Weighted Index – against a basket of currencies of Australia’s trading partners weighted according
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Free Trade Free trade may also be called International Trade. Free Trade occurs when goods and services are traded between countries without the use of import controls. For most of the late twentieth century, the prevailing wisdom has been that free trade can lead to improvements in economic welfare in the global economy. However this has not prevented regular trade disputes between countries - often when one country feels that unfair trade practices have caused the benefits from trade to become
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In a fixed exchange rate regime the term ‘Devaluation’ is used. It means a deliberate downward adjustment of a country's official exchange rate by its government i.e. central bank (RBI in India) relative to other currencies; Where as in floating or fluctuating exchange rate currency's value is allowed to fluctuate according to the foreign exchange market. In this case, it is known as Depreciation. There are two implications for currency devaluation. * First, Devaluation
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