This "spread" is also assessed when investors trade foreign currencies through a brokerage firm.
Import demand gives rise to a supply of dollars and a demand for foreign currencies.
Credits in our balance of payments reflect the supply of foreign currencies and demand for dollars.
This reflects faster nominal growth, particularly in the U.S., plus stronger 2006 averages for foreign currencies.
Simply holding foreign currencies or foreign bonds or something is probably not too good a strategy.
This assumes the money is spent internally on goods and services and externally on foreign currencies.
Almost one-fourth of the increase resulted from the effect of translating stronger foreign currencies into U.S. dollars.
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For the most part the story has been that the foreign currencies are strengthening against the dollar.
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Debits in our balance of payments reflect the demand for foreign currencies and the demand for dollars.
Approximately one-quarter of the increase resulted from the effect of translating stronger foreign currencies into U.S. dollars.
So how do you diversify into foreign stocks without taking a lot of risk in foreign currencies?
Foreign enterprises will no longer need an official's chop each time they want to buy foreign currencies.
The IMF originated to ensure that exchange rates of major foreign currencies to the dollar stayed at par.
Markets remained mixed Friday as inflation worries in China kept foreign currencies down and commodities continued to fall.
Rabobank plans to expand lending to China's food producers and processors, both in yuan and in foreign currencies.
Bajoria is recommending investors prepare for increased risk aversion by scaling back on long positions in foreign currencies like the rupee.
Full disclosure of forward positions in foreign currencies, both by the central bank and by commercial banks, would be a second.
In addition, the rapid expansion of the money supply causes the currency to lose value against hard assets and foreign currencies.
In much of East Africa you can now bank, even exchange foreign currencies and make international payments on a feature phone.
Now, all foreign currencies must be changed at commercial banks at the official rate, barely a third of the black-market rate.
In July, China revalued by 2% and pegged the currency to a basket of foreign currencies, rather than just the dollar.
Exchange-rate changes will negatively impact some gold miners as their costs rise in foreign currencies in light of weaker U.S. dollar.
From December 1996 to December 2000 the dollar rose by 19% against major foreign currencies and by 35% in terms of gold.
What's more, if you really want just to speculate on foreign currencies, you don't need a Swiss bank account to do so.
Put simply, the foreign currencies that have exhibited relative strength have only been strong insofar as the dollar has been very weak.
Demand for our exports supplies foreign currencies and a demand for dollars.
The Japan premium, the extra rate which all Japanese banks must pay to borrow in foreign currencies, has fallen only a bit.
Profit fell 53 percent from 2010, which Huawei blamed on weak global demand and the strength of China's yuan against foreign currencies.
Now, it has the third largest holdings of currency and foreign currencies.
Past QE rounds have therefore led to higher risk taking in equities, junk bonds, commodities and foreign currencies as a hedge against inflation.
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