Business, Legal & Accounting Glossary
Instruments, such as paper currency, notes, and checks, used to make payments between countries.
Foreign exchange relates to the trading of currencies between two different nations. It includes money instruments like notes, checks, and paper currency. The foreign exchange rate between the currencies of any two nations has to be calculated on an accurate and timely basis in order to facilitate global commerce transactions. Banks, central banks, multinational organizations, governments, and investment management firms are some of the entities that trade on the foreign exchange market.
For any other financial market, investors would have to wait for exchanges to open to carry out their activities. However, the foreign exchange market allows one to immediately react to fluctuations caused by economic, political or social occurrences. In recent times, small and medium-sized investors have been provided easy access to the foreign exchange market.
Foreign exchange market relates to the financial market where trading of currencies takes place. Foreign exchange market operates on a 24×7 basis. Exchange dealings are carried out through global banks, individuals, and corporations.
Foreign exchange rate provides the factor by which worth of a specific currency can be ascertained in terms of another currency. Rough estimates indicate that currency worth nearly 2 trillion US dollars is traded in the foreign exchange market on a daily basis.
Large banks trade heavily in the foreign exchange market. They are major contributors to speculative trading that takes place in the exchange market. Large banks can trade more than a billion dollars in the market on a daily basis.
Central banks are responsible for controlling factors like money supply, interest rates, and inflation. They work towards stabilization of the foreign exchange market. Central banks try to stabilize the market by using their foreign exchange reserves.
Investment management firms trade in the foreign exchange market on behalf of the customers. These firms help in smoothening up the process of foreign securities transactions in the foreign exchange market.
The foreign exchange rate for that extremely poor country has a way lower rate than that of our own country
You need to always shop around for the best possible rates any time that you will be making a big foreign exchange.
The current foreign exchange rate between the dollar and the euro is becoming even so that I get just about my money’s worth for each euro that I buy with my dollars.
net currency exposure
firmness
cross-currency transaction
currency pair
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pula fund
currency diversification
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International Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
Foreign Exchange Dealers' Association of India
foreign exchange spot trading
foreign exchange desk
forward foreign exchange
unsterilized foreign exchange intervention
foreign exchange derivatives
foreign exchange reserve
equity-linked foreign exchange option
foreign exchange market
foreign exchange rate
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