
Title: Currency Strategy
Sub Title: The Practitioner's Guide to Currency Investing, Hedging and Forecasting
Author: Callum Henderson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year: 2006 (June 5)
Pages: 264
ISBN: 0470027592 / 9780470027592
Format: Hardcover
Description:
Following the success of the first edition, this second edition includes important new material: a Preface to the Second Edition, additional sections for Chapters 7, 8 and 9 on the Real World of the Currency Market Practitioner, and a new Chapter 11 – Emerging World: New Growth Markets for Global FX.
The global foreign exchange market continues to go from strength to strength, defying those who predicted its demise after the launch of the Euro. However, within this, new Emerging Markets show the greatest potential for growth. This second edition examines in detail the very latest trends in this field, providing important insights for currency market practitioners on regions such as Asia, which may hold the key to the market’s development in years to come.
John Maynard Keynes’ reference to the ‘animal spirits’, that elemental force which drives financial markets in herd-like fashion, was applied to the stock market. However, he might as well have been referring to the currency market, for the term sums up no other more perfectly. A market that is volatile and unpredictable, a market that epitomizes such a concept as the ‘animal spirits’, surely requires a very specific discipline by which to study it.
This is precisely what Callum Henderson does in this eminently practical and readable book. He provides an analytical framework for currency analysis and forecasting, combining long-term economic valuation models with market-based valuation techniques to produce a more accurate and use-friendly analytical tool for the currency market practitioners themselves.
John Maynard Keynes’ reference to the ‘animal spirits’, that elemental force which drives financial markets in herd-like fashion, was applied to the stock market. However, he might as well have been referring to the currency market, for the term sums up no other more perfectly. A market that is volatile and unpredictable, a market that epitomizes such a concept as the ‘animal spirits’, surely requires a very specific discipline by which to study it.
This is precisely what Callum Henderson does in this eminently practical and readable book. He provides an analytical framework for currency analysis and forecasting, combining long-term economic valuation models with market-based valuation techniques to produce a more accurate and use-friendly analytical tool for the currency market practitioners themselves.
About the Author:
Callum Henderson is Head of FX Strategy for a leading international bank, based in Singapore. A wide-quoted authority of both emerging and currency markets, Mr Henderson has spent the past 16 years in the financial markets in various capacities and has written articles for many leading financial journals and given seminars around the world on global currency markets.
Mr Henderson is the author of three previous books covering the Asian economic story: the bestseller Asia Falling, China on the Brink (awarded Best Business Book of 1999 by the Library Journal of the US) and Asian Dawn.
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