The foreign currency (FOREX) market is subject to substantial impact from politics, which plays a key part in setting trends, volatility, and investor mood. The nature of this relationship is ...

Foreign exchange traders look at the various factors that influence local economies and rates of exchange, and then take advantage of any misevaluations of currencies by buying and selling in ...

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2. Interest Rate Risks . In basic macroeconomics courses, you learn that interest rates have an effect on countries' exchange rates. If a country’s interest rates rise, its currency will ...

FINANCIAL-MARKET traders have earned a pretty shocking reputation in recent years. From manipulating LIBOR, a benchmark interest rate, to rigging the daily fix of foreign-exchange (FX) rates ...

The foreign exchange market is an over-the-counter (OTC) marketplace that determines the exchange rate for global currencies. It is, by far, the largest financial market in the world and is made ...

The central bank estimates that around 10% to 15% of the daily $7.5 trillion-a-day foreign-exchange market’s turnover is settled without any risk mitigation and warns policymakers could move to ...

Asian Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market is Back. Bigly. Joe Gagnon and Fred Bergsten have called the years from 2003 to 2013 the decade of manipulation, as a host of Asian countries ...