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If you’re involved in trading, investing, business planning or international finance, you must know the difference between spot rates and forward rates. Understanding the difference plays a big role ...

If you ever traveled abroad, odds are you had to exchange currency. Yet, even if you planned that trip for months, odds are you didn’t prepare for this exchange immediately but simply accepted that ...

A spot rate is the current market price at which a stock, bond, commodity, or currency can be purchased or sold. A forward rate or forward price is a price set in advance between a buyer and a seller ...

Explore currency overlay strategies that separate currency risk from asset management, helping investors mitigate risks and ...

We offer a unifying empirical model of covered and uncovered currency premia, interest rates and spot and forward exchange rates, both in the cross section and time series of currencies. We find that ...