One of the most important participants in this market are the real sector companies that buy foreign currency with different kinds of goods or services. However their impact on the market, at least in the short term, is small.
As mentioned earlier trade flows are an important factor in long-term direction of a currency. Some multinational companies can have an unpredictable impact when their positions, often very large, have been covered due to exposures that are not widely known by other market participants.
Central banks play an important role in markets for foreign currency. Its main objective is to control the money supply, inflation, and / or interest rates and often impose exchange rates. Equally often use their international reserves to stabilize the market.
The expectation or rumor of central bank intervention might be enough to stabilize a currency. However, central banks do not always achieve their objectives. The market can easily overwhelm any central bank. This happened in the debacle of the 1992-93 Exchange Rate Mechanism, and in more recent times in the asia-Pacific.
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At the end of last year, Intel offered to take back excess inventory of its channel partners, as the effects of fluctuating currencies and excess inventory on its partners cash flow. - Business Standard India
With export orders flow in the RS 600-crore sports industry in Jalandhar is back on track. The industry suffered a 25-40 percent reduction in new orders from multinational sports brand in August 2008 to January of this year. - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
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