Conventional Hedging Currency : A Conventional Currency

Central banks intervene in foreign exchange markets by “influencing the monetary funds transfer rate of a nation’s currency” with the purpose of building reserves, keeping the exchange rate stable, to correct imbalances, to avoid volatility and keep credibility. It implies changing the value of a currency against another one. It creates demand or supply of a currency by buying or selling the country’s currency in the foreign exchange market. (Foreign Exchange Intervention)

Currency exchange rates can be categorised as floating, in which case they constantly change based on a number of factors, or they can subsequently be fixed to another currency, where they still float, but they additionally move in conjunction with the currency to which they are pegged. Floating rates are a reflection of market movement, demonstrating the principles of both demand and supply, as well as limit imbalances in the international financial system. Fixed exchange rates are predominantly used by developing countries as they are preferred for their greater stability. They grant further control to central banks to set currency values, and are often used to evade market abuse. (MacEachern, A. 2008; Simmons, P.

A country such as China might choose to peg their currency to the U.S. dollar to keep prices stable for a key trading partner like the U.S.  If the U.S. dollar would appreciate considerably against most currencies, this would not affect China trade with the U.S., but Chinese goods would become more expensive to their other trading partners, and could cause Chinese exports to these other markets to decrease.

Businesses, institutions, and individual investors may not be risk tolerate and may seek to place their investments in other countries with a managed exchange rate with less volatility. By the definition of flexible exchange rate, there are little or no government controls or use of active government intervention.

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Foreign exchange rates are best described as simply the price of a country’s money expressed in another country’s money. In simple words, it is the rate at which a currency can be swapped for another. An example of determining foreign exchange rates is by substituting goods for currencies. Another example is the yuan-dollar exchange will depend on how well the demand and supply moves. When the demand for dollars in China climbs and supply does not go up correspondingly, each dollar will cost more yuan to buy. (Colander, 2010)

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Such a process can be very time consuming and imprecise, without, of course, having a market currency price to begin with. The exchange-rate system is an important topic in international economic policy. Policymakers and journalists often seem to treat the choice of exchange-rate system as one of the most important economic policy choices that a national government makes, on a par with free international trade. Under most circumstances and for most countries, a system of freely floating exchange rates is likely to be a better choice than attempting to peg the exchange rate.

Aspen has become a public company with more risk adverse investors who want to invest in the core business of the firm and not assume any foreign exchange risk. Foreign exchange risk is a core risk to Aspen’s business because they have many customers outside of the United States. We believe that transferring this risk to the customers would limit Aspen’s growth on the foreign markets: Aspen should keep its current marketing strategy, which includes credit installment payments and payments in local currencies for Japan, the UK and Germany. The current risk management program hurts the company because it doesnot consider Aspen’s expenses abroad that balance sales exposures to currency fluctuations. We then recommend that

A fixed exchange rate retains by government intervention. Let’s imagine that the price of 1 dollar will equal to 33,220IRR at the equilibrium when there are no sanctions on Iran. Hence, if the demand for the dollar would increase, then the supply will increase until the currency adjusts by government intervention. We can see this situation in the upon diagram:

First, the fixed nominal exchange rate has lost its real economic significance, the current RMB exchange rate formation mechanism is difficult to form market-clearing equilibrium rate. Practice, exchange settlement and capital management system in suppressing demand for foreign exchange at the same time creating a large part of foreign exchange supply, the central bank continued to intervene and the fact that the position of the largest market makers, erase all the differences between actual supply and demand. The central bank 's benchmark rate to determine the true market supply and demand balance is not the result can not reflect the market changes.

dollar. In dollarization, the country abolishes its own currency and uses a foreign currency, such as the U.S. dollar, for all domestic transactions. 6. Emerging market exchange rate regimes. High capital mobility is forcing emerging market nations to choose between free-floating regimes and currency board or dollarization regimes. What are the main outcomes of each of these regimes from the perspective of emerging market nations? There is no doubt that for many emerging markets a currency board, dollarization, and freely-floating exchange rate regimes are all extremes. In fact, many experts feel that the global financial marketplace will drive more and more emerging market nations towards one of these extremes. As illustrated by Exhibit 2.5, there is a distinct lack of “middle ground” left between rigidly fixed and freely floating. In anecdotal support of this argument, a poll of the general population in Mexico in 1999 indicated that 9 out of 10 people would prefer dollarization over a floating-rate peso. Clearly, there are many in the emerging markets of the world who have little faith in their leadership and institutions to implement an effective exchange rate policy.

This paper explores several published articles that report on results from trading commodities and currencies as it relates to portfolio management. A few of the articles that I researched gave me a more general idea of how to invest in commodities and currencies. Some of the articles vary in that each of them has a different opinion on portfolio theory. For example, in their article, Jensen, Johnson, and Mercer claim that commodity futures are equal to equity returns over time and that they offer significant diversification benefits to an investment portfolio. In

Again, there are some governments that do try to attempt to influence the value of their currency by ways of intervention. The most notable offender in recent years is that of China, who has sought to keep its currency undervalued to make Chinese exports more competitive against other heavily traded Asian markets. They can do this by buying US dollar assets, which increases the value of the US dollar to Chinese Yuan ratio. (Factors Which Influence the Exchange Rate) Because the current financial status is so heavily dependent on exporting, the continuous management of the exchange rate to ensure export competitiveness is essential for China and Sri Lanka. A reduction in exports could affect the economy seriously as a decline in exports could affect economic growth, employment and incomes. (Sanderatne)

A fixed exchange rate regime will offer an economy greater stability in international prices and therefore encourage trade. Additionally, for developing countries a fixed rate will assist in promoting institutional discipline as the country will adopt restrictive monetary and fiscal policies that foster an anti-inflationary environment. A significant weakness of a fixed rate is that it is subject to destabilizing speculative attacks which could lead to financial meltdowns and devastating economic contractions. A floating exchange rate regime allows central banks to combat macroeconomic factors such as unemployment, inflation, and interest rates without having to worry about the effect on exchange rates. However, developing countries whose economies depend on trade will be reluctant to allow their exchange rates to fluctuate freely.