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Hedging or de-hedging, that is the question…

Simply Treasury

When payments were in foreign currencies, this may have affected their results because of currency hedging. The extremely high market volatility during the health crisis, one of the economic consequences of COVID, also forced many companies to review their hedging strategy. But the amount initially accumulated in OCI/EHR (i.e.,

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Turning Currency Volatility Into A Global FX Strategy

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Exposure to the risks of endless shifts of foreign exchange (FX) rates keeps executives on their toes: Deloitte recently found FX volatility to be the most common concern among surveyed corporate treasurers. However, foreign exchange risk mitigation goes beyond hedging, said Mark Frey, COO at Cambridge Global Payments.

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Swedish Krona Continues To Fall Amid Other Currency Upheavals

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As Bloomberg put it, the “decline followed weak retail sales data earlier in the week and brings the Swedish currency’s losses this year to more than 8 percent against the euro.” Such lows were last seen in 2009. Rate Decision. The country’s central bank is scheduled to make a decision about interest rates on Sept.

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Inflation is here. It’s real. It could take you out of business.

VCFO

What does that do to your profitability? Many companies run with less than a 10% profit to start with. There is significant debate on the causes with two [mainstream] competing theories – Keynesian and Monetarist Economics. You can do your own math on what this will mean to you. What are Some of the Causes of Inflation?

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

And so, you know, it was relatively, I wouldn’t say straightforward because I don’t think generating consistent profits has ever been something that’s so straightforward or so easy. And it’s always going to expect to lose some of those profits when the trend reverses, but still end up capturing the meat of the trend.

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Transcript: Peter Borish

Barry Ritholtz

And at that point, foreign exchange and futures and derivatives were just starting. ” RITHOLTZ: So people also should realize, for those of you who’ve never traded futures, it’s not like options where essentially you could put up your losses in advance and all they could do is go to zero.

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Transcript: Bill Dudley, NY Fed Chief

Barry Ritholtz

You get an economics PhD from California, Berkeley in 82, and around the same time you become an economist at the Federal Reserve Board from 81 to 83. But, but, you know, we, I focused mostly on fixed income and foreign exchange. Let, let’s talk a little bit about your background. 00:08:11 [Speaker Changed] Yeah.