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Multinational Corporates Face Rising FX Hedging Pressure

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s Conservative Party leadership contest is only the latest geopolitical event sparking concerns among analysts over foreign exchange (FX) markets — and corporates’ ability to react to those changes. More recently, a Bank of Jamaica survey revealed a constriction in local banks’ foreign exchange forwards or hedging contract agreements.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. With no further ado, my interview of GCM’s Ken Tropin.

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Economic Stability For Payments and Commerce: An Old-Fashioned Idea

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The country’s central bank has raised its benchmark lending rate to 24 percent from 17.75 We’ve got some adjustments to make because of foreign exchange rates, and we know we’ll make those adjustments and we’ll grow into that,” said Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos during the company’s post-earnings conference call.