Confidence and expectation
Foreign currencies markets have some characteristics that make them become a very interesting investment way. What do we negotiate at foreign currencies markets? Principally confidence and expectation. These factors are the ones that make the foreign currency price change. When an investor believes that the foreign currency will raise its value and it actually does, this decision makes other investors have more confidence and expectation and so foreign currency demand increases.
This reaction of foreign currency market can carry out two consecuences: The first one is that, the more demand you have the more the supply will have to raise, and the second one if the deman raises and the supply doesn’t, there will be an imbalance of the market in which foreign currency price can raise, as the ones that have it, take advantage of that moment. That’s why the balance and transparency of foreign currencies markets is so important.
In every world country the entity in charge of setting up the value of the foreign currency is the Central Bank, this intervenes daily at foreign currencies market to avoid the raise or low of the exchange rate according to what was established by the politic of the moment.
Actually one of the currencies that have gained value at foreign currencies market is the euro. The analysis that is done in front of this situation, is that this is because of the growing of european economies that are members of the euro zone. Even thought the devaluation of the dollar in front of the euro answers to the failures that the american economy has had in the last years, in which its macroeconomics indicators have fallen considerably.