Currency Risk Quotes

Portfolio investment, often called 'hot money' because of its volatile nature, can increase the economy's vulnerability to the vagaries of international finance. Foreign direct investment, on the other hand, is far more stable and driven by domestic fundamentals.

The trifling economy of paper, as a cheaper medium, or its convenience for transmission, weighs nothing in opposition to the advantages of the precious metals it is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.

A short squeeze could happen with the U.S. dollar if lenders suddenly forced debtors to pay in cash.

We don't really believe there's much room for the creation of new currencies if there is no real backing for a hard and credible issuer of that currency.

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

Governments have a tendency to screw up currencies.

We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.

The global market does not understand the India risk as well as we do, and therefore, we have the arbitrage facility of making better margin on the same set of Indian firms than what we would have made by giving rupee loans.

English businesses would face massive transaction costs if Scotland, their second biggest export market, used a different currency.

I think that the tying of the Montenegrin economy with the euro is a much better option than the adventure of printing our own currency.

... a baseless currency varying every fifty miles and fluctuating everywhere.

Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.

Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.

I always ask two questions when we are closing in on a deal: What currency are we dealing in and how many people are expecting to get paid as part of this transfer?

Whoever gambles with the dollar, loses

I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

The Fed Note is essentially unsound. It is the worst currency and the most dangerous that this Country has ever known.

By 2007, an uncompetitive, bloated, over-borrowed and distorted Irish economy had been left at the mercy of subsequent international events without the safeguards, institutions, and mindset needed to survive and prosper as a small open economy inside the euro area.

The use of crypto-currency as a surrogate for the ruble in trading in goods and services, in our opinion, has a risk of undermining the circulation of money.

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

We are on a crazy strategy with our central bank. It's good to have alternative ecosystems. It's not that the dollar will go away, but we need other options if it crashes or wildly inflates.

A digital currency issued by a central bank would be a global target for cyber attacks, cyber counterfeiting, and cyber theft.

The gas, which is our main source of power, is priced in dollars.

Every morning when I pick up the newspaper and read about an earthquake in Japan or problems in European financial institutions, the first question I ask our staff is 'What is money-market-fund exposure?'