Economic Indicator - A statistics which indicates current economic growth rates and trends such as retail sales and employment.
ECU - European Currency Unit.
EDI - Electronic Data Interchange.
Effective Exchange Rate - An attempt to summarize the effects on a country's trade balance of its currency's changes against other currencies.
EFT - Electronic Fund Transfer.
End Of Day Order (EOD) - An order to buy or sell at a specified price. This order remains open until the end of the trading day which is typically 5PM ET.
EMS - European Monetary System.
EURO – since 2002 the Euro has been the currency of the European Monetary Union (EMU). A replacement for the European Currency Unit (ECU). Members of the EMU are Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
European Monetary System - A system designed to stabilize if not eliminate exchange risk between member states of the EMS as part of the economic convergence policy of the EU. It permits currencies to move in a measured fashion (divergence indicator) within agreed bands (the parity grid) with respect to the ECU and consequently with each other.
European Central Bank (ECB) - the Central Bank for the new European Monetary Union.
Exchange control - Rules used to preserve or protect the value of a countries currency.
Exotic - A less broadly traded currency.
Exposure - In foreign exchange, a potential for gain or loss because of movement in foreign exchange rate. There are three primary types of exposure:
EDI - Electronic Data Interchange.
Effective Exchange Rate - An attempt to summarize the effects on a country's trade balance of its currency's changes against other currencies.
EFT - Electronic Fund Transfer.
End Of Day Order (EOD) - An order to buy or sell at a specified price. This order remains open until the end of the trading day which is typically 5PM ET.
EMS - European Monetary System.
EURO – since 2002 the Euro has been the currency of the European Monetary Union (EMU). A replacement for the European Currency Unit (ECU). Members of the EMU are Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
European Monetary System - A system designed to stabilize if not eliminate exchange risk between member states of the EMS as part of the economic convergence policy of the EU. It permits currencies to move in a measured fashion (divergence indicator) within agreed bands (the parity grid) with respect to the ECU and consequently with each other.
European Central Bank (ECB) - the Central Bank for the new European Monetary Union.
Exchange control - Rules used to preserve or protect the value of a countries currency.
Exotic - A less broadly traded currency.
Exposure - In foreign exchange, a potential for gain or loss because of movement in foreign exchange rate. There are three primary types of exposure:
- Economic: The change in future earning power and cash flow arising from a change in exchange rates. In effect, it represents a change in the value of a company holding foreign currency.
- Transnational: A potential gain or loss arising from transactions that will definitely occur in the future, are currently in progress, or could have already been completed. A signed but not shipped sales contract, a receivable or foreign currency payment collected but not converted to local currency would all be examples of transaction exposure.
- Translation: The potential for change in reported earnings and/or the book value of the consolidated company equity accounts, as the result of a change in foreign exchange rates used to translate the foreign currency statements of subsidiaries and affiliates known as accounting exposure.
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