Forex: Home Currency Foreign Currency

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FOREX

involves two currencies


compares two country's currencies
Currency rates = relevant value of currency
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Reference Currency
Home Currency
the location of which you want to value a currency
Foreign Currency
the currency to be valued in regards to home currency

DIRECTLY QUOTED Direct Quotation


Home Currency / Foreign Currency
INDIRECTLY QUOTED Indirect Quotation
Foreign C. / Home C.

American terms ( $/FC)


common currency = US $
European terms ( FC/$)
% change of $
ex: Php 52 / 1 $ Peso Movement of dollar
Directly quoting the dollar 46
Presented in European terms + 49 6.522%
+ 51 4.082%
- 47 -7.843%
Currency Appreciation + 52 10.638%
the currency strengthened AVERAGE

Currency Depreciation
loss of value of a country's currency with respect to one or more foreign reference currencies
currency weakens

(1+r) = (1+re)(1+inf)

Theoretically, the returns in country 1 should be the same to country b


re A = re B

(1+ra) (1+infA)
=
(1+rb) (1+infB)

S = A/B
So = ((1+ra)/(1+rb))^n
% change of pesos
Movement of pesos Gross Returns

-6.1224% 93.878%
-3.9216% 96.078%
8.5106% 108.511%
-9.6154% 90.385% I
-2.7872% -3.0186%
^ arithmetic mean ^geometric mean
Brazillian Dollar
Cost of Debt
Expected Inflation 7% 2% 104.90%
USD JAPAN
Cash flows Yen
0 -1000 120
1 400 117.087378641
2 400 113.677066642
3 200 110.366084118
4 600 107.151537979
5 400 104.030619397
6 150 101.000601356
7 150 98.058836268
8 500 95.2027536583
9 500 92.4298579206

Inf. Rate
US 3%
Japan 0.50%

Cost of Capital for US Projects

Current Yen 120


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