The Dollar and Beyond Forex Risk Management in a Global Currency Market

The study on foreign exchange risk management in India does not have enough research insight compared to other developed countries. The motive of this study is to investigate the price interlinkages and co-movements among the select world currencies. By finding the price association and correlation among the currencies (i.e. INR, BRL, RUB, CNY, ZAR, EUR, GBP, ILS, JPY, MYR, SGD and CHF) of the countries namely the policy makers can improve the currency market in India on par with its international standards.The traders in

currency market facilitated to hedge their position with multiple options. The study is designed as a descriptive one. This study is intended to find out the price interlinkages of select world currencies. The currencies were selected based on the literature and the information of IMF. The present study is based on the secondary data which was collected during the period of spot selling price in London currency market from Bloomberg terminal. The target currencies were INR (Rupee), BRL (Real), RUB (Ruble), CNY(Yuan), ZAR (Rand ), EUR (Euro), GBP (Pound Sterling), ILS (Shekel), JPY(Yen), MYR (Ringit), SGD (Sing Dollar) and CHF (Swiss Franc) with USD (Dollar) as the base currency.