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Q.What is meant by the Foreign Exchange Market?

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The Foreign Exchange Market refers to the worldwide network of commercial banks, central banks, currency dealers and other financial institutions that buy and sell currencies on behalf of businesses, governments and individuals who need to convert one currency into another. Unlike a stock exchange, it does not exist in one physical location; instead, it operates electronically across many financial centres around the world, so that some part of the market remains open at almost any hour of the day. Businesses that need to pay foreign suppliers, or that receive payments in a foreign currency and need to convert them into their home currency, carry out these conversions through banks that participate in this market.

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The Foreign Exchange Market is the worldwide network of banks, dealers and financial institutions, linked electronically across countries, through which currencies are bought and sold to settle international transactions.

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