What is a money market hedge? How is it constructed?
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In a money market hedge you offset the underlying transaction exchange risk with borrowing or lending in the foreign money market rather than with a forward market transaction. For example, if the underlying business transaction gives you a liability in foreign currency, you can borrow domestic currency, convert the principal from the borrowing into foreign currency, and invest the foreign currency thereby acquiring a foreign currency asset that is equivalent in value to the underlying foreign currency liability. You would want to borrow an amount of domestic currency equal to the present value of the foreign currency liability when converted at the spot exchange rate.
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A bond issued by a Venezuelan company, denominated in U.S. dollars, and sold in Britain, France, and Germany is an example of a ________
A) dragon bond B) yankee bond C) Eurobond D) samurai bond