What are causes of exchange rate fluctuations?
Causes of exchange rate fluctuations:
- short term - changes in the demand and supply of the currency in the FOREX markets. (mainly due to speculations).
- longer term - exports, imports, capital flows - that are based on differences in countries:
rates of inflation
interest rates
rates of economic growth
labour productivity
measures of international competitiveness
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