foreign exchange risk:
1. transaction risk exchange rate change during the term of transaction
mitigation hedge
2. economic risk longer time, the exchange rate may change due to the economic issues,
mitigation by diverse
3. translation cooliated financial statement
hedge technicial: forward contract, money market hedge (borrow and loan)
IRP interest rate parity: R1=R0*(1+if)/(1+ih)
the steps to solve the question about futures:
step 1. buy or sell identify contract transaction currency (pay or receive), then back to futures size in which currency.
step 2. the date no early than transaction date, usually longer than contract term
step 3 number of contacts = contract due amount/contract size if the futures is on another currency ,then convert with the curent future price
step 4. do the transaction using the spot rate
Step 5. close the future contract