to have a firm understanding on the forces driving exchange rate changes as these would affect investment and financing opportunities. This report analyzes the movements of three currencies, Australian Dollar (AUD), Icelandic Krona (ISK), and Indian Rupee (INR) against US dollar, and suggests events that may cause the violations of three chosen currencies. Analysis shows that factors including but not limited to inflation rates, interest rate differences, foreign investment as well as demand and
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Case 6.1: Balance Of Payments- Q1) What are the major concerns from the external sector? Ans) Rising CAD is a major concern from the external sector. The current account has consistently been in deficit since 2004-05. The CAD has increased from -0.3% of GDP in 2004-05 to an estimated -4.2% of GDP in 2011-12. The CAD as a percentage of GDP in 2011-12 has reached an alarmingly high rate. We are in a situation of rising CAD in the midst of a slowing economy. A sharply deteriorating merchandise trade
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belong to. 1 Introduction The Asian crisis of 1997-98 has made a strong pitch for dynamic linkage between stock prices and exchange rates. During the crisis period, the world has noticed that the emerging markets collapsed due to substantial depreciation of exchange rates (in terms of US$) as well as dramatic fall in the stock prices. This has become important again from the view point of large cross border movement of funds due to portfolio investment and not due to actual trade flows, though
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E.g. The expression US Dollar–Rupee, tells you that the US Dollar is being quoted in terms of the Rupee. The US Dollar is the base currency and the Rupee is the terms currency. Exchange rates are constantly changing, which means that the value of one currency in terms of the other is constantly in flux. Changes in rates are expressed as strengthening or weakening of one currency vis-à-vis the other currency. Changes are also expressed as appreciation or depreciation of one currency in terms of the
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Capital account convertibility of the rupee is a distant dream because macro economic parameters have to be stable before it is implemented. The low current account deficit should be sustained and the fiscal deficit needs to be contained. * Leads to free exchange of currency at lower rates and an unrestricted mobility of capital * Beneficial for a country because inflow of foreign investment increases * The flip side, though, is that it could destabilise an economy due to massive capital
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A Study of Impact of RBI policy rates on inflation *Prof. Pallavi Ingale Introduction The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is the Indian central bank. The RBI’s most important goal is to maintain monetary stability - moderate and stable inflation in India. The RBI uses monetary policy to maintain price stability and an adequate flow of credit. Rates which the Indian central bank uses for this are the bank rate, repo rate, reverse repo rate and the cash reserve ratio. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised
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The report provides a consolidated preview of the external environment of Ashok Leyland and the Indian automobile industry. This study will take us through the evaluation of external factors using EFE matrix, to the comparison of the company with its competitors (CPM) and study the incentives given by the government to encourage the expansion of the Indian automobile industry. Introduction The Indian Automotive Industry after de-licensing in July 1991 has grown at a spectacular rate on an average
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Industry Analysis Report FMCG March 11 2014 Submitted By: Ankur Nag – P301412CMG388 Ansuman Singh – P301412CMG340 Ashish Khandelwal – P301412CMG349 Habib Khan – P301412CMG365 Lalatendu Pattnaik – P301412CMG377 Industry Analysis Report FMCG 2014 Contents 1. INDUSTRY PROFILE ........................................................................................................................................... 4 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 2. Sector Overview ....................
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amounts to many trillions of dollars. The objective behind this entire project is to get the basic understanding about an Indian foreign exchange market, Forex Instruments available in India, its functioning, Forexregulators& players. Project has emphasis more on numerical data gathered through different reliable sources to comparing and analysis the performance so far by Indian foreign market with other countries and their currencies which holds a dominant position in the global foreign exchange
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by the US Federal Reserve on September 18 about the postponement of QE3 (quantitative easing) withdrawal will aid the rupee in the near term. This has given RBI some leg room to partly reverse the extra liquidity tightening measures, which were undertaken to stem the volatility in the rupee. As the uncertainty about the timing and speed of withdrawal of QE3 and its impact on rupee remains, liquidity tightening measures initiated in July were not fully reversed. On the whole, measures taken by the
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