Most offshore issuance by Australian borrowers in the September quarter was denominated in foreign currencies (with companies typically using swap markets to hedge the proceeds back to
Australian dollars).
As is usual, most offshore issuance by Australian borrowers was denominated in foreign currencies, with companies typically using swap markets to convert the proceeds back to
Australian dollars.
The currency exposure that arises from owning foreign stocks is not hedged back to
Australian dollars.
Data from the last two months shows that the Reserve Bank of Australia has allowed its reserves to increase by 862 million
Australian dollars.
Borrow in the low interest rate currency (Yen, Swiss Francs, Offshore Yuan), and invest in the high interest rate currency (US dollars, NZ dollars,
Australian dollars, Korean Won, Indian Rupee, etc.) Again, it all depends where you are in the cycle, as to whether this is a good trade or not.
With a carry trade, you would borrow or sell Japanese yen and use that to purchase
Australian dollars.
When the swap matures, the counterparty bank's repayment of
Australian dollars to the RBA is effected by a debit to that bank's ES account (which reduces aggregate ES balances).
As usual, most offshore issuance was denominated in foreign currencies, with companies typically using swap markets to hedge the proceeds back to
Australian dollars.
Foreign borrowers issuing in Australia and seeking to swap back to their home currency usually receive favourable prices in the currency swap market because of greater demand by Australian borrowers to do the reverse — i.e. borrow in foreign currency and swap into
Australian dollars.
Record foreign currency bond issuance by Australian entities in 2004 has pushed up the cost of converting foreign currency to
Australian dollars and made it cheap for foreigners to do the opposite (Graph B3).
With the euro no longer a viable option, she thinks the Canadian and
Australian dollars are the two best choices for reserve managers who are looking to diversify.
This in turn reflected a compositional shift towards equity liabilities (which are denominated almost entirely in
Australian dollars) and away from debt liabilities (some of which are denominated in foreign currencies).
He gets an order in bitcoin which converts to
Australian dollars at the original amount.
We need a really simple and clean mechanism to get
Australian dollars in our bank account the day after we've been paid for them.»
Because she crowd - funded with Pozible, she was able to accept bitcoin as well as
Australian Dollars.
Graph 8 shows the return where the investor funds themselves in yen and invests in
Australian dollars at 90 days and continually rolls the position.
The crowdfunder for David Goodall's final journey exceeded its target, raising more than 20,000
Australian dollars ($ 15,000).
The U.S. currency also gained versus the Canadian and
Australian dollars, the latter down half a percent and close to its 4-1/2 month low reached last week.
To counteract this, the Australian government has announced its largest - ever investment in the coral reef: over half a billion
Australian dollars ($ 378 million).
The deal will put 58 million
Australian dollars into fighting the starfish, with the rest going to improving water quality, funding research into reef restoration, and monitoring damage to the reef.
My Australian dollars have cost one - quarter more than on my last visit.
The return of gold mining as Western Australia's fastest - growing industry is becoming more interesting, with a near - record price for the metal in
Australian dollars triggering increased exploration and a pair of possible mine developments in the Wheatbelt.
($ 1 = 1.3296
Australian dollars)(Reporting by Byron Kaye and Wayne Cole; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
The company recorded a pre-tax gain of $ 247 million
Australian dollars ($ 187 million as of July 4, 2017) on the sale.
To try to stop the destruction before the Great Barrier Reef — the largest, most extensive reef system in the world — is no more, the Australian government has announced that it plans to spend more than half a billion
Australian dollars (about $ 379 million USD) on improving water quality to protect coral reefs; reef restoration; and helping to fight predatory starfish.
Manufacturing is on a rebound with the low
Australian dollar.
The Australian dollar has followed Wall Street lower after the US Federal Reserve indicated that it is on track to raise its interest rate at its next policy meeting in June.
The financial crisis and poor
Australian dollar is just two of a thousand excuses I have heard them use over the years to avoid taking responsibility, and justify in their own minds that the collapse of this company has nothing to do with the underhanded practices and their own poor management.
The Reserve Bank of Australia chief's speech addressed a subject of increasing interest: does it intend to issue a digital form of
the Australian dollar?
Christy Tan of the National Australia Bank explains why she's projecting
the Australian dollar to weaken against the U.S. dollar.
All these features are found in the GMMA display on
the Australian dollar.
Despite strident comments about alleged currency manipulation by China, but not Japan, there is little doubt that the Reserve Bank of Australia will implement a variety of measures to weaken
the Australian dollar.
The same story can be applied to
the Australian dollar which at the beginning of 2016 looked to be heading towards $ 0.635 after a fall below the primary support level near $ 0.715.
Mineral sands miner Iluka Resources has lifted its first - half profit by 74 per cent, to $ 20.4 million, on the back of a weaker
Australian dollar.
Other currencies which have borne the brunt of the dollar's rally in the last two weeks such as
the Australian dollar, Canadian dollar and the Swiss franc stabilised on Wednesday, rising between 0.2 to 0.4 percent.
But, it says, it is reviewing the pace at which it progresses those projects after recent falls in coal prices and
the Australian dollar's ongoing strength.
Financial markets have reacted positively to Xi's conciliatory speech, bidding up riskier assets such as stocks and commodity currencies like
the Australian dollar.
The Australian dollar also got an upward lift, traded at $ 0.7259 versus the greenback, compared with $ 0.7241 prior to the data releases.
The difference can not be explained by an outbreak of Dutch Disease in Canada, as
the Australian dollar has appreciated faster than the Canadian dollar over the last decade.
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The Australian dollar was almost flat at $ 0.7773 after the Reserve bank of Australia kept its policy on hold as expected.
The long and steady decline in
the Australian dollar from $ 0.93 to $ 0.69 has paused and developed a significant reversal pattern.
In other words, traders rushed to sell
the Australian dollar, the Korean won and other currencies to get ahead of inevitable countermeasures by the region's other central banks.
The RBA also cautioned that a rising
Australian dollar could result in a slower pick up in economic activity and inflation.
This increases its importance as a support level when
the Australian dollar moved above 77.5 to the new resistance level near 81.
Starting in January,
the Australian dollar developed a strong rally.
The Australian dollar chart does not have these features.
This is not a trending market so there is a better probability that
the Australian dollar will continue to trade between the upper and lower limits of the trading band.
The Australian dollar moved as low as $ 0.69 and as high as $ 0.73.
There is a high probability this level will again act as a successful resistance level with
the Australian dollar developing a rapid retreat.