spot rate
noun[C]
FINANCE,MONEYukus(alsospot exchange rate)therateat which onecurrencycan beboughtwith another now,ratherthan arateagreedforbuyingit on afuturedate:
Theexchangerateforcreditcardpurchasesistypicallybasedon thespotrateatnooneachday.
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It allows the company to take advantage of the forward premium without locking on to thespotrate.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thespotratehas to be locked onto before the starting date of the forward to forward contract.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They usually differ from thespotrateand from each other.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The settlement price (or rate) is called spot price (orspotrate).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In such a case it is possible that the forward rate provides information on the futurespotrate, but ultimately uncertain.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Transactions are often translated at thespotrate, i.e., the rate of exchange between the transaction currency and the functional currency on the date of the transaction.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As there are no intermediate payments on this bond, (all the interest and principal is realized at the end of n years) it is sometimes called the n-yearspotrate.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Accordingly, it is the companies' expectation of prices over such periods which matter, not the currentspotrate.
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They are not comparable with aspotratefor foreign tonnage.
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Longer-term charter contracts provide stable revenues which are not subject to the same volatility of spot rates.
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