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Lecture #11

Hedging foreign currency risk: Issues in and out of

ChinaAaron Smallwood, PhD.

UT-Arlington

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Yuan non-deliverables Example: In June a Chinese firm wrote a

contract so that they will receive $1,000,000 for exported goods in 12 months.

But, the yuan may continue appreciating. What to do?

– While potentially costly, a yuan NDF is available. How do they work?

– Additional detail can be found at the China Construction Bank’s website:

http://www.asia.ccb.com/hongkong/personal/investment/cny_non_deliverable_forward.html3

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Details Settlement amount given as follows:

where F is the agreed upon forward rate and “settle” is the official parity rate on the date the contract expires.

If the trader is “selling” dollars (they will receive $ in the future), money is added to the traders account when the RMB appreciates. Otherwise, money is subtracted. The reverse is true if the trader is “buying” dollars.

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Example continued According to an article published in the

Taipei times, on June 9, 2014,“Twelve-month non-deliverable forward contracts (NDFs) strengthened 0.47 percent to 6.2154 per US

dollar.”

Suppose in 12 months, the RMB price of the dollar is RMB 6.05. The hedge would be quite useful.

The trader will move money added to her account:

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And….

The trader sells $27,338.84 at RMB 6.05. Proceeds: RMB 165,400.

As a completely separate transaction, the trader sells dollars in the spot market:– $1,000,000*(RMB/$) 6.05 = RMB

6,050,000 Total: 165,400 + 6,050,000 = RMB

6,215,400. EXACTLY = 1,000,000 * 6.21540

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Currency Risk Management

Forward Market Hedge (Not yet available) Options Market Hedge (Not yet available) Money Market Hedge Hedging Through Invoice Currency Hedging via Lead and Lag Should the Firm Hedge?

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Forward Market Hedge: Imports If you expect to owe foreign currency in the

future, you can hedge by agreeing today to buy the foreign currency in the future at a set price by entering into a long position in a forward contract.

Forward Contract

Counterparty

Importer

Foreign Supplier

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Services

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Forward Market Hedge: Exports If you are going to receive foreign currency in

the future, agree to sell the foreign currency in the future at a set price by entering into short position in a forward contract.

Forward Contract

Counterparty

Exporter

Foreign Custome

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Goods or

Services Foreign

CurrencyDom

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Importer’s Forward Market Hedge

Forward Contract

Counterparty

U.S. Import

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Italian Supplie

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Shoes

$1,3

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A U.S.-based importer of Italian shoes has just ordered next year’s inventory. Payment of €1M is due in one year. If the importer buys €1M at the forward exchange rate of $1.3695/€, the cash flows at maturity look like this:

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Suppose a British exporter of bicycles will receive €750,000 in six months, which they want to convert into pounds.Suppose, the forward six-month rate (pound per euro) is £0.846997. Thus, the long position in euros would generate:

£635,247.45 = €750,000 × €1

£0.846997

At the six-month forward exchange rate €750,000 will buy £635,247.45. We can secure this trade with a LONG position in six-month pound forward contracts:

Exporter’s Forward Market Cross-Currency Hedge

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Exporter’s Forward Market Cross-Currency Hedge: Cash Flows at

Maturity

Exporter Customer

€750,000

€750,000 Long position in six-month

pound forward contracts at £0.8470/€1

Bicycles

£635,247.45

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Importer’s Money Market Hedge This is the same idea as covered interest

arbitrage. To hedge a foreign currency payable, buy the

present value of that foreign currency payable today and put it in the bank at interest.– Buy the present value of the foreign

currency payable today at the spot exchange rate.

– Invest that amount at the foreign rate.– At maturity your investment will have

grown enough to cover your foreign currency payable.

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Importer’s Money Market HedgeA Chinese–based importer of Italian bicycles owes €100,000 to an Italian supplier in one year.– The spot exchange rate is ¥8.2344 = €1.00.– The one-year interest rate in Italy is i€ = 4%.– The importer can hedge this payable by

buying

and investing €96,153.85 at 4% in Italy for one year. At maturity, she will have €100,000 = €96,153.85 × (1.04).

¥8.2344€1.00RMB cost today = ¥791,769.23 = €96,153.85 ×

€100,0001.04€96,153.85 =

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Importer’s Money Market Hedge

¥831,357.69 = ¥791,769.723 × (1.05)

With this money market hedge, we have redenominated a one-year €100,000 payable into a ¥791,769.23 payable due today.

If the Chinese interest rate is i¥ = 5%, we could borrow the ¥791,769.23 today and owe ¥831,357.69 in one year.

¥831,357.69=€100,000(1+ i€)T

(1+ i¥)T×S(¥/€)×

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Importer’s Money Market Hedge: Cash Flows Now and at Maturity

Importer

Supplier

bicycles

Spot Foreign Exchange

Market

€100,000

¥791,769.23

€96,153.85

CNY Bank¥8

31,3

57.6

9

Italia Bank

€100,000

T= 1 cash

flows

deposit i€ = 4%

€96,153.85

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Exporter’s Money Market Hedge

Exporter

Customer

shoes

Spot Foreign Exchange

Market€100,000

$119,047.62

€95,238.10

U.S Bank$1

27,5

00.0

0

Crédit Agricole

€100,000

T= 1 cash

flows

deposit i$ = 7.10%

€95,238.10Borrow i€ = 5%

An American exporter has just sold €100,000 worth of shoes to a French customer. Payment is due in one year.Interest rates in dollars are 7.10 percent in the U.S. and 5 percent in the euro zone.The spot exchange rate is $1.25/€1.00. Use a money market hedge to eliminate the exporter’s exchange rate risk.