Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• CURRENCY HEDGE - Applies mainly to international equities. Hedging technique to guard against foreign e...
  
  
• CURRENCY OPTION - A contract that gives the holder the right to buy (call) or sell (put) a specific amo...
  
  
• CURRENCY OVERVALUATION - Applies mainly to international equities: (1) consideration that a currency is...
  
  
• CURRENCY PUT OPTION - Contract that gives the holder the right to sell a particular currency at a speci...
  
  
• CURRENCY REVALUATION - A deliberate upward adjustment in the official exchange rate established, or peg...
  
  
• CURRENCY RISK - Related: Exchange rate risk
  
  
• CURRENCY RISK SHARING - An agreement by the parties to a transaction to share the currency risk associa...
  
  
• CURRENCY SELECTION - Asset allocation in which the investor chooses among investments denominated in di...
  
  
• CURRENCY SWAP - The exchange of specified amounts of currencies on one (nearby) date, exchange of speci...
  
  
• CURRENCY TRADING - The global currency market, where roughly $1.5 trillion a day changes hands, is by f...