Posts Tagged ‘currency speculators’

How to curtail the speculative global currency transactions?

Speculative funds sloshing around the world markets create an inherent instability while undermining the real economy and progressive policies at a national level. Currency speculators trade over 1800 billion US-$ each day across borders – about 90% of the currency trade is speculative! In the globalized economy, there is a lack of adequate funding for [...]

What do currency speculators look for when considering buying a currency?

Based on what I’ve learned in Macroeconomics, it seems like it would make sense if someone bought the currency of a high exporting country. There is less of this country’s currency floating around the world market and thus it will not depreciate in value as much as say the dollar because we run a trade [...]