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Navigating the Waters of Foreign Exchange and International Payments
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Navigating the Waters of Foreign Exchange and International Payments

EIU, 2014 more...

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7

Qualities

  • Comprehensive
  • Analytical
  • Overview

Recommendation

You wouldn’t know it by reading the financial news, but the foreign exchange market is a huge and growing enterprise that undeniably dwarfs global stock and bond markets. In an interconnected world, more and more companies must hedge the currency risks their cross-border transactions create. Yet despite its size, the foreign exchange market can seem impenetrable and confusing. The Economist Intelligence Unit offers an easy-to-digest primer on foreign exchange, which getAbstract recommends to students, investors and business professionals.

Take-Aways

  • The foreign exchange (forex or FX) market sees 28 times more daily trading volume than all the world’s equity markets combined. In April 2013, currency transactions reached $5.3 trillion per day.
  • Financial institutions aiming to cash in on currency movements and multinational companies trying to manage the forex risk of their cross-border transactions are typical FX market players.
  • Despite the risk of losses in forex transactions, firms that don’t hedge their currency exposures can also lose money.

About the Author

The Economist Intelligence Unit is an independent research and analysis organization.


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