Proceeds of exports will be available through the foreign exchange market to importers who need it.
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Now, seeing the infomercials and hype-laden Web sites, many investors have flocked to the foreign exchange market.
With currency ETFs, investors can enjoy the benefits of the foreign exchange market without an actual forex account.
In other words, they tighten with reserve requirements and ease with open market operations in the foreign exchange market.
The supply of dollars on the foreign exchange market is reflected in debits (above the line) in the balance of payments.
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It could do so by intervening in the foreign exchange market, just as it tacitly allows others countries to do against it now.
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So, you may be thinking, you could hedge your U.S. bond portfolio by making a side bet against the dollar in the foreign exchange market.
The U.S. dollar index traded sharply higher Thursday and got a somewhat surprising boost when the Bank of Japan intervened in the foreign exchange market overnight to pressure the yen.
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The U.S. dollar index is trading sharply higher Thursday morning and got a somewhat surprising boost when the Bank of Japan intervened in the foreign exchange market to pressure the yen.
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The panic we witnessed last summer on the foreign exchange market largely came from the perceived risks associated with a seeming one-way bet on dollar-yen exchange before most Asians de-coupled from the yen.
Back to that Economics 101 course: I learned that there is a connection between the supply and demand for dollars in the foreign exchange market and the demand and supply respectively for foreign goods and services.
The Euro currency deteriorated on the world foreign exchange market as traders sought out the U.S. dollar and U.S. Treasuries for safe-haven assets.
The Euro currency is withering in the world foreign exchange market and traders are seeking out the U.S. dollar and U.S. Treasuries.
In fact, interventions do not have to match the total, or even a significant part, of all transactions conducted on the foreign-exchange market to be effective, but only the ex ante imbalances in these transactions.
Market sentiment can turn on a dime, and the foreign-exchange market is notorious for overshooting when it changes its mind.
The foreign-exchange market, once open and liquid, gains a new restriction every second week.
Meanwhile, Viloria said the foreign-exchange market has factored in a weak economic climate for Europe.
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But if their interventions in the foreign-exchange market drive the currency down, that may boost inflation.
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Against this backdrop, gold in recent days has been taking its cue from the foreign-exchange market, several said.
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Retail forex brokers are not direct participants in the Interbank foreign exchange market.
The foreign-exchange market is hugely liquid, so carry-trade positions were easily unwound.
India, for example, seems not to have intervened much in the foreign-exchange market, but its currency has not moved much over the past year either.
By flooding the foreign-exchange market with their own money, central banks risk driving up inflation which would erode the gain in competitiveness from a cheap currency.
The WSJ Dollar Index is an attempt to improve on existing indexes by basing its value on actual, up-to-date turnover by all participants in the foreign-exchange market.
One greenback buys around 45 rupees on the foreign-exchange market, but that amount stretches three times as far in India as it does in America, according to the World Bank's comparisons of purchasing power.
In the trading strategy that has apparently been at the center of the moves over the past week, foreign funds seem to have been hedging their currency risks when making their initial share purchases by selling yen in the foreign-exchange market.
The only spreads that this foreign exchange market seems comfortable in touting are the periphery bond spreads.
Every three years, when the BIS releases its new foreign-exchange market survey, the WSJ Dollar Index will be reweighted using the bank's latest trading volume figures, making it a dynamic index that evolves with the constantly changing market.
The Fed would do this, Bernanke explains, to influence the market for foreign exchange, i.e.
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