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Equity prices during currency devaluation — Mexico 1994
If I own a company whose assets are 100 barrels of oil valued at $10,000 in some currency, and the currency's value suddenly drops by a factor of two, I would expect that my company is now suddenly ...
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How and why does the exchange rate of a currency change almost everyday?
How does the exchange rate of a currency change every day? Why does that happen?
Please explain to me with a naive approach and avoiding financial jargon.
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WSJ article about CFDs - am I missing something?
In this WSJ article, it comments
Traders held a net $22.6 billion in bets that the dollar will appreciate, a gain of 31% in net wagers over the previous week and the largest such position since ...
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Does the currency exchange rate contain any additional information at all?
Pretty often I hear someone saying stuff like "The pound is worth more than the US Dollar" or "The Kiwi Dollar is worth less than the Euro".
Well, technically it is correct that 1 pound buys me more ...
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How is exchange rate calculated?
assume that there is a very new island-country called xland. they decide to name their currency xdollar and there is 1000 xdollars in circulation. the very first foreigner comes and wants to exchange ...
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Sources or web sites for longer-term economic and financial forecast information?
I was looking for a source of economic and financial forecast information. I have already checked the IMF and the OECD, but they have forecasts up to 2011. Is there something with forecasts up to ...
