Posted on 13 August 2009
Tags: bear contracts, bond, broker, callable bull, company’s ticker symbol, Deutsche Börse, dividends, financial markets, holder, Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Introduction to Warrant, liquidity, listed exchange, lower interest rates, potential buyers, Secondary Market, security, stock, stock of the company, stock price, warrant, warrant transactions, warrant's price
In finance, warrant is a name given to a security that entitles the holder to buy stock of the company that issued it at a specified price, usually this price is higher than the stock price at time of issue.
Frequently Warrants are attached as a sweetener to bonds or preferred stock, by which the issuer is allowed to pay lower interest rates or dividends. Also in order to enhance the yield of the bond they can be used, and they make bonds more attractive to potential buyers. Moreover warrants can also be used in private equity deals. Frequently, these warrants are detachable, and they can be sold independently of the bond or stock.
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Posted on 05 August 2009
Tags: Bilateral vs. effective exchange rate, Bretton Woods system, currency trading, domestic currency, domestic price level, exchange rates, financial markets, fixed exchange rates, foreign currency, foreign exchange market, foreign nation’s currency, foreign-exchange rate, forex, Forex Market, forex rate, forward exchange rate, Free or pegged Exchange Rates, free-floating currency, future exchange rate, FX market, FX rate, GDP deflator measurement, GDP weighted effective exchange rate, home nation’s currency, market forces of supply and demand, NEER, nominal effective exchange rate, Nominal exchange rates, PPP, purchasing power parity, real effective exchange rate, Real exchange rates, REER, RER, Uncovered interest rate parity, US Dollar
In finance, the exchange rates is also known as the foreign-exchange rate, forex rate or FX rate. Between two currencies it is specified by the exchange rates that how much one currency is worth in terms of the other. The value of a foreign nation’s currency in terms of the home nation’s currency is given by exchange rates. For instance an exchange rate of 95 Japanese yen (JPY, ¥) to the United States dollar (USD, $) means that the value of JPY 95 is the same as USD 1. One of the largest markets in the world is the foreign exchange market. According to an estimates, every day about 3.2 trillion USD worth of currency are exchanged.
the current exchange rate is referred to as the spot exchange rate. The forward exchange rate refers to such type of exchange rate that is quoted and traded today but its delivery and payment is agreed on a specific future date.
Free or pegged Exchange Rates
If a currency is free-floating, then its exchange rate is permitted to vary against that of other currencies and this exchange rate is determined by the market forces of supply and demand. For such currencies exchange rates are likely to change almost constantly as quoted on financial markets, mainly by banks, around the world.
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Posted on 03 August 2009
Tags: Bretton Woods regime, Definition of Dollar Hegemony, Dollar Hegemony, economic development, fiat currency, financial markets, forex, FX market, global economy, global financial markets, gold-backed dollar, important reserve currency, monetary hegemony, reserve currency, Speculative attacks, U.S. economy, U.S. gold holdings, US Dollar
A term coined by Henry C.K. Liu to describe the US dollar in the global economy is Dollar hegemony;it is a form of monetary hegemony. The term was popularized by Liu in a widely circulated and quoted article "Dollar Hegemony has to go" in Asia Times on April 11, 2002. Then after that this article was quoted by William Clark in January 2003, Immanuel Wallerstein of the Fernand Braudel Center on June 1, 2003, Greg Moses, James Robertson in April 2004 and subsequently by many others.
Definition
A geopolitical phenomenon of the 1990s is described by this term in which the U.S. dollar, a fiat currency, became the primary reserve currency internationally. Dollar hegemony has been allowed by three developments allowed to emerge over a span of two decades.
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