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MERCADO CAMBIOS [4 records]

Record 1 2016-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

A market in which currencies are bought and sold at current rates of exchange for delivery at specified future dates.

OBS

A transactor expecting to acquire a currency, or to have to make a payment in it, at a future time, may sell or buy the currency forward, thus covering himself against any changes in its exchange value in the intervening period.

Key term(s)
  • foreign exchange forward market

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
  • Commerce extérieur
Key term(s)
  • marché de change à terme

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Política monetaria y mercado de cambios
  • Comercio exterior
DEF

Mercado en el que se compran y venden divisas a tipo de cambio corrientes para entrega en fechas futuras especificadas.

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Record 2 2005-01-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

A market where foreign currencies are traded, and the daily or spot and future prices of currencies are decided.

CONT

Recent turmoil in the Southeast Asian currency markets, as well as the earlier Mexican crisis and collapse of the European exchange rate mechanism in 1992-93, has heightened interest in the causes and symptoms of currency crises.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
  • Commerce extérieur
DEF

Marché, au comptant ou à terme, de devises qui sont généralement cotées par rapport à la monnaie nationale.

Key term(s)
  • marché de change
  • marché des devises étrangères
  • marché des changes étrangers

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Política monetaria y mercado de cambios
  • Comercio exterior
DEF

Conjunto de operaciones con monedas extranjeras que determinan los precios diarios de una moneda en función de otras.

CONT

Las recientes conmociones de los mercados cambiarios de Asia sudoriental, el desencadenamiento de la crisis de México y el colapso del mecanismo europeo de ajuste de cambios en 1992-93 han despertado un mayor interés en las causas y los síntomas de las crisis cambiarias.

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Record 3 2003-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
  • Foreign Trade
DEF

Foreign exchange market where currency is sold for immediate delivery.

CONT

The spot market is for foreign exchange delivered within 2 business days; the forward market is for foreign exchange to be delivered at some specified future date.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
  • Commerce extérieur

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Política monetaria y mercado de cambios
  • Comercio exterior
CONT

El mercado de cambios al contado se refiere a las transacciones efectuadas de inmediato: son notas intercambiadas entre instituciones financieras.

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Record 4 1999-10-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Public Sector Budgeting
  • Foreign Trade
  • Investment
  • Market Structure (Trade)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Budget des collectivités publiques
  • Commerce extérieur
  • Investissements et placements
  • Morphologie des marchés (Commerce)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Presupuestación del sector público
  • Comercio exterior
  • Inversiones
  • Estructura del mercado (Comercio)
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