International integration in capital markets: 1. Started with the Bretton Woods agreements but then decreased after 1971. 2. Was prohibited by GATT since 1950. 3. Mainly increased since the 1970s. 4. Decreased up to today from their high levels in the early 1950s. 5. Increased, but only after 2000 and not before

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True/false : International Financial Management: 1. Forward contracts are often valued at £1 million or more, and are not normally used by consumers or small firms. (a) True             (b) False 2. Governments may influences the equilibrium exchange rate by affecting macro variables such as inflation, interest rates, and income levels. (a) True               (b) False 3. A forward contract is an agreement to buy or sell an asset in the future at prices agreed upon today. (a)True                 (b) False

Prepare a two page executive briefing on the question of whether capital generated in the industrialized countries is finding its way to and from emerging markets. Is there some critical distinction between “less developed” and “emerging”?

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Which factor below is causing many of the world's top financial institutions to consider moving their global operations out of London and shift them to other financial capitals within the Eurozone? economic uncertainty high interest rates Brexit high-risk ventures

Discuss how the following hinder or become barriers to international diversification of portfolios of investment. Segmented markets Lack of liquidity Exchange rate controls Less developed capital markets

Variation in the price of non-agricultural commodities is determined over time by demand-supply dynamics. The last two decades have seen a significant increase in international trade and business volume due to globalization and liberalization sweeping across the world. This increase has led to rapid and unpredictable variations in financial assets prices, interest rates and exchange rates, and subsequently, to exposing Multi-National Corporations to financial risk. As a result, financial markets have experienced rapid variations in interest and exchange rates and stock market prices, thus exposing the corporate world to a state of growing financial risk. We can hedge the risk of price variations in stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, interest rates, market indices etc. Given this context, please conduct the necessary research and answer the following questions. Discuss two (2) similarities and two (2) differences between a futures contract and a forward contract. When would the use…

Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) implemented a convergence trading strategy involving corporate bonds and U.S. Treasuries. Expecting the spread between corporate bond yields and Treasury yields to narrow over time, LTCM took large leveraged positions, going long (buying) corporate bonds and short (selling) Treasuries. However, the 1998 Russian debt crisis triggered a flight to quality, causing corporate bond prices to fall and Treasury prices to rise, leading to a divergence of the spreads and massive losses for LTCM's trades. On July 1, 1998, LTCM initiated a convergence trade by going long $100 million notional of Baa-rated 10-year corporate bonds with a yield of 7.5% and coupon rate of 7%, and shorting $100 million notional of 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds with a yield of 5.5% and coupon rate of 5%. a. Explain LTCM's rationale for going long corporate bonds and short Treasuries in their convergence trade. What were the underlying assumptions behind this strategy? b. Calculate…

The rise of globalization is due to the many companies that have become multinational corporations for various reasons—for example, to access better technology, to enter new markets, to obtain more raw materials, to find funding resources, to minimize production costs, or to diversify business risk. This multimarket presence exposes companies to different kinds of risk as well—for example, political risk and exchange rate risk.   Several factors affect the exchange rate of a currency with another currency. Which of the following statements are true about the factors that have an impact on exchange rates? Check all that apply. If a government intends to prevent its currency’s value from falling relative to other currencies, it will purchase its currency from sellers in the market. If the demand for a currency increases, the currency’s value will increase relative to other currencies. When a government limits imports and restricts foreign exchange transactions, its currency’s value tends…