Category: Foreign Exchange

What drives FX?

The title of this post seems simple enough. However to answer the question of what drives FX is somewhat more complex. I remember one of my colleagues at Lehman Brothers, used to describe FX as an amalgamation of other markets. When a portfolio manager buys stocks in a foreign country, this results in an FX…

A cynic & valuation in FX

I remember (many) years ago, being asked at a graduate job interview at Lehman Brothers, what is the price of an asset? I somewhat stumbled around for a few minutes pontificating searching for a few coherent words which could be jumbled up into the sentence. I have no precise recollection of what I replied. I do however remember…