The EURUSD spot exchange rate is quoted as XXXXXXXXXXHow many EUR are needed to purchase $100,000,000 USD on this market? Explain. Who buys at the bid? Who buys at the ask? Who sells at the bid? Who...

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The EURUSD spot exchange rate is quoted as 1.32250-1.32267. How many EUR are needed to purchase $100,000,000 USD on this market? Explain.

  1. Who buys at the bid? Who buys at the ask? Who sells at the bid? Who sells at the ask? Explain.



  1. An FX dealer quotes the spot exchange USDJPY spot exchange rate as 85.887-85.905. Two buyside counterparties agree to transact at these quotes: One buys one billion JPY and the other sells one billion JPY. What is the dealers profit from these transactions in JPY terms?



  1. What role do exchange rates play in attracting foreign investments? What currency policies do you recommend a policymaker implement in order to remain an attractive destination for foreign investments?



  1. You are advising a USD firm that expects to make a EUR 5,000,000 payment in three months. What forward contract can be used to hedge FX risk? Explain with a diagram.



  1. If you are bearish regarding EURUSD volatility and bullish regarding EURUSD direction, what type of option position should one obtain? Explain.



  1. When will an entity with a long position in a down-and-out barrier call option regret their decision to choose the down-and-out barrier rather than a long position in a vanilla call option? Explain.



  1. Is it always good news for a country classified as emerging to be reclassified as developed? Explain.



  1. What were the original BRIC predictions? Were they accurate? Explain.




1. The EURUSD spot exchange rate is quoted as 1.32250-1.32267. How many EUR are needed to purchase $100,000,000 USD on this market? Explain. 2. Who buys at the bid? Who buys at the ask? Who sells at the bid? Who sells at the ask? Explain. 3. An FX dealer quotes the spot exchange USDJPY spot exchange rate as 85.887-85.905. Two buyside counterparties agree to transact at these quotes: One buys one billion JPY and the other sells one billion JPY. What is the dealers profit from these transactions in JPY terms? 4. What role do exchange rates play in attracting foreign investments? What currency policies do you recommend a policymaker implement in order to remain an attractive destination for foreign investments? 5. You are advising a USD firm that expects to make a EUR 5,000,000 payment in three months. What forward contract can be used to hedge FX risk? Explain with a diagram. 6. If you are bearish regarding EURUSD volatility and bullish regarding EURUSD direction, what type of option position should one obtain? Explain. 7. When will an entity with a long position in a down-and-out barrier call option regret their decision to choose the down-and-out barrier rather than a long position in a vanilla call option? Explain. 8. Is it always good news for a country classified as emerging to be reclassified as developed? Explain. 9. What were the original BRIC predictions? Were they accurate? Explain.
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1. The EURUSD spot exchange rate is quoted as 1.32250-1.32267. How many EUR
are needed to purchase $100,000,000 USD on this market? Explain.
The trader/investor will buy U
SD at the current spot rate and at the ask price.
The ask price is 1.32267. That indicates, they can buy 1.32267 USD in one EUR.
Thus,
EUR needed to purchase $100,000,000 USD = 100,000,000/1.32267
=75,604,648.17 EUR
2. Who buys at the bid? Who buys at the ask? Who sells at the bid? Who sells at the
ask? Explain.
The bid price is that you can sell the currency; it is the price that market makers
are willing to give on the currency you own. The ask price is the price at which
you can buy currency so it is the price at which the market makers are asking to
you to give for currency. Hence, the market makers buys at the bid and investors
or traders buys at the ask similarly, the trader or investors sells at bid and market
makers sells at the ask.
3. An FX dealer quotes the spot exchange USDJPY spot exchange rate as 85.887-
85.905. Two buyside counterparties agree to transact at these quotes: One buys
one billion JPY and the other sells one billion JPY. What is the dealers profit from
these transactions in JPY terms?
The dealers make profit from the bid and ask spread. Here one buys one billion
JPY and other sells one billion JPY. Hence, the profit would be:
=(Ask price – Bid Price) x 100,000,000
=(85.905 – 85.887) x 100,000,000 = 1,800,000 JPY.
4. What role do exchange rates play in attracting foreign investments? What
currency policies do you recommend a policymaker implement in order to
remain an attractive destination for foreign investments?
Exchange rates change according to the interest rates. If interest...
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