Questions of the Day
Exchange Rates and Investing
Exchange Rates
- What is the current German mark price of the dollar? How
many Japanese yen does it take to buy a dollar?
- What would you expect to see happen to the value of the dollar
as a result of wealthy Germans buying US stock?
- What would you expect to happen to the dollar if Japan lowered
interest rates to get their economy moving and investors moved their money out of Japan
into the US?
- 1998 was the year of the Asian crisis. In that year
investors around the world fled from Asian stock markets - they took their money and ran.
And many of them ran to the the US where they thought their money would be safest.
How would the escape from Thailand's stock market affect the bhat (Thailand's
currency)?
- When investors were seeking safe haven, one of their favorite
choices was US government bonds. What should have happened to the price of US
government bonds? You should look at the data and see if you can see the effect. A
good place to check out the data would be the Time Series page. {This is a more
difficult question}
- If you were to import some French wine that was selling for
25FF, what would be the dollar cost of the wine?
Investing
- What is the current stock price for American Power Conversion
(APCC) that is sold on the NASDAQ exchange? What is the price of IBM stock?
- What has been the range in prices for American Power
Conversion's stock in the last year?
- If you were to have invested $1,000 in the New York Stock
Exchange since the first of the year, based on the DJA, you would have made earned the
greatest return if the investment had been made in which sector - Industrial,
Transportation, or Utilities?
- If you were to have invested $1,000 in a stock market since the
first of the year, based on the market indexes, you would have made earned the greatest
return if the investment had been made in which country - Taiwan, Mexico,
France, Argentina, or Japan?
- What is the rate on 30 year government bonds?
- What is the difference between the current price and the price
of corn that will be delivered a year from now?