The money changers : a guided tour through global currency markets /: a guided tour through global currency markets. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert G. Williams.
• Other Names: Williams, Robert G (Robert Gregory), 1948-
• Contents: Introduction: Encounter with a Moneychanger 1. A Glance at Foreign Exchange at Breakfast 2. A Visit to the Local Bank: What Do Money Changers Buy and Sell? 3. How Do Money Changers Arrange Deals? 4. Who Are the Actors in the World's Biggest Market? 5. Where Deals are Made: Historical Geography of Money Changer Enclaves Why Do Money Changers Cluster Where They Do? Paradox of Clustering in a Computer-linked World 6. Professor Smith Gets FX'd in Tokyo: Could He Have Profited from a Currency Forecast? 7. Inside the Trading Room: Philosophies behind Trading Strategies Vision No. 1: It's All Supply and Demand Vision No. 2 : It's All Fundamentals Vision No. 3: It's All Technical 8. Behind the Fish Tank: What Causes Rates to Change? 9. How Currencies are Delivered: Snapshot of an Evolving System A Visit with a Payments Systems Expert Appendix to Chapter 9: Diagrammatic Notes on Currency Delivery Channels 10. The Big Apple: Electronic Dollar Deliveries through CHIPS 11. Time to Settle Up: CHIPS Closes the International Dollar Day at the New York Fed 4:30-5:00 pm CHIPS Upgrades to Real Time Final Settlement 2001 Finally, a Delivery System Safe from Foreign Exchange Settlement Risk: Continuous Linked Settlement Bank begins in 2002 Lessons of September 11, 2001 for Global Payments 12. In the City of London after the Russian Default: Anatomy of Currency Storms of the 1990s? 13. The Euro in its Infancy Prologue The Potential of the Euro as a World Currency The Euro-Revolution in Stocks and Bonds The Transition of the Real Economy to Euro 14. Doubts about the Euro and the new Central Bank A European Central Banker Waits on the Sidelines Doubts about TARGET, the Official Euro Payments System Reflections on the Future of the World Monetary System Wrap-up Session with Walter Blass Update Appendix: Euro Developments after the 1999 London Interviews 15. Testing the Dollar's Hegemony: Will the Adjustments be Smooth? Source of the Dollar Doubts: How long will Foreigners Finance US Overspending? Dollar Testing Episodes and the Evolution of Market Stories Episode 1: Spring and Summer 2002 Episode 2: The Buildup to War Episode 3: Fall of 2003 Episode 4: 2004 Presidential Elections and their Aftermath Relief for the Dollar: Spring and Summer 2005 A Smooth or Turbulent Adjustment: Greenspan vs Volcker The Run on the Dollar in the Late 1970s The Political Economy of Sterling's Decline as Global Currency Long-run Lessons for the Dollar's Loss of Hegemony A Hopeful Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Subjects: 332.45; Foreign exchange market; International finance; Foreign exchange market; International finance
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848137363; 1848137362
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