Posted on July 21st, 2010 by Jeremiah Henderson
Investments are also made on the basis of speculation. Investments are called speculative investment when the investor does not analyze and assess the financial asset before investment is made. Often investors are not interested in long term investment but on short term change in price. The fluctuation of prices over a short term is the primary factor in speculative investment. These short term fluctuations may not actually reflect the real value of the asset. Banking on these fluctuations is both risky and distorts the real nature of the asset.
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Posted on July 19th, 2010 by Rachel Walker
In today’s world, currency has come to occupy a prominent position. But this was not the way it was earlier. Money in ancient times was made of gold and silver in the form of coins. These coins have its own real value because it was made of precious metals. Larger purchases were made of gold coins while the smaller purchases were silver coins. Banknotes have however replaced these coins. These banknotes do not have any natural inherent value like the gold coins. They are worthless. The value that these banknotes have is because these are legally tendered money by government order.
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Posted on July 2nd, 2010 by Erik Ruiz
Foreign exchange market is where currency is traded. When trade in goods and services were limited as in olden days, the system of transaction was through barter. Barter was a system where the transaction was carried out by exchange of goods. But with the expansion of trade, this form of transaction became quite cumbersome. An intermediate between the goods traded was invented. Formerly this was in the form of coins made of metals which had intrinsic value such as gold, silver and copper. The use of coins to buy and sell goods became convenient. The problem was when the value of goods sold or bought were high. It required that much more coins which was just too cumbersome posing a practical problem. Moreover trade further expanded. Something easier to handle had to be invented. That was how banknotes made its appearance to substitute coins. Initially the banknotes were pegged to valuable metals such as the gold standard. But this was later de-linked. Now the value of banknotes comes from the value decreed by governments. These banknotes are issued by banks that are controlled by national governments.
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