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Saturday, 29 October 2011

Foreign Exchange Rates

Sounds difficult! Let�s look at the following example:
An exchange rate of 100 JPY (Japanese Yen) to USD (United States Dollar) means that 100JPY is worth the same as 1USD.






Foreign exchange or Foreign exchange is the simultaneous purchasing of money for another at a set rate called the exchange rate. This exchange rate is the relative value between currencies. In particular, the quantity of money helps to set the money necessary for purchasing or selling unit of the other money.

Before you go inside the technique of how money rate is determined, you ought to know about basis point. A foreign exchange rate is usually expressed by way of a whole number integer followed by four decimal points like 0.0001.

Each of the numbers is called a basis point. So, if an exchange rate goes from one.4510 to one.4560, the money is said to have changed by 50 basis points.

In the event you look closely at the foreign exchange foreign exchange rates, you will notice that chiefly types of methods are used to express the rates. The technique that is used widely is � rate based on the amount of any money that is necessary to buy USD. For example, a foreign exchange quote is expressed as USD/CND at one.4300. This means that one USD can be exchanged for one.43 Canadian dollars.

Another technique of quoting rate is basically the reverse of the first technique. In this technique, the foreign exchange rate is expressed in terms of the USD amount that can be exchanged for unit of foreign money.

If USD is not used to express foreign exchange foreign exchange quote, the term cross rate is usually used to express the relative values between currencies. For example - DEM/SFR at .7000. This means that Deutschemark can be exchanged for .7 Swiss Francs.

There's more terms that you need to know to understand foreign exchange foreign exchange rates. These are spot exchange rate & forward exchange rate.

The exchange rate quotation states the number of units of a cost money that can be bought in terms of one unit money. E.g. if it is mentioned in any quotation that the exchange rate for EUR-USD is one.2 USD per EUR, this means that the cost money is USD & the unit money is EUR.

  The spot exchange rate is used to refer to the current exchange rate
  The forward exchange rate is used when the rate is quoted & traded today but for delivery & payment on a specific future date

Direct quotation: one foreign money unit = x home money units

  Direct quotation: If quotes are given using a country's home money as the cost money (from the countryâ��s point of view).E.g. £0.574744 = $1 in the United Kingdom

  Indirect quotation: If quotes are given using country's home money as the unit money. E.g. $1.73990 = £1 in the United Kingdom.

Indirect quotation: one home money unit = x foreign money units
If the home money becomes strong & become more valuable using direct quotation, the exchange rate number decreases. Conversely if the foreign money becomes strong, the exchange rate number increases, which indicates that the home money is depreciating.

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