Essays on Financial markets Page 4

Interest rate parity is a no-arbitrage condition representing an equilibrium state under which investors will be indifferent to interest rates available on bank deposits in two countries.  The fact that this condition does not always hold allows for potential opportunities to earn riskless profits from covered interest arbitrage. Two assumptions central to interest rate parity…

Money as a medium of exchange is an item that buyers give to sellers when they want to purchase goods or services. An example of how I use money as a medium of exchange is simple. Every week when I do my grocery shopping, I give the cashier money, whether it is in the form…

Brenan admitted similar fears n interviews with David Weasel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal and author of In Fed We Trust. The fact that the global economy is no longer uncontrollably spiraling downward (for 2010, the Economist Intelligence Unit predicts growth of 2. 7 percent for the world and 1. 8 percent for…

The transaction exposure component of the foreign exchange rates is also referred to as a short-term economic exposure. This relates to the risk attached to specific contracts in which the company has already entered that result in foreign exchange exposures. A company may have a transaction exposure if it is either on the buy side…