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Basic Question 5 of 19
The ______ is the price at which a currency dealer is willing to sell a currency.
B. offer or bid price
C. offer or ask price
A. ask or bid price
B. offer or bid price
C. offer or ask price
User Contributed Comments 4
| User | Comment |
|---|---|
| Inaganti6 | hypocrisy is the nature of free enterprise ... to sell something more than you buy the cost of produce for .. |
| kseeba17 | lol ^ OK Karl |
| davidt876 | not if the cost of producing the currency for you to buy/sell includes registering a company, dealing with the necessary regulatory costs of trading currencies, paying traders and overheads, and paying the custodians of the financial instruments/cash or spending money to do it yourself. then the spread is justified. then free enterprise is working ignanti. also the use of the spread over a fixed transaction fee means their commission naturally adjusts to market demand to give you a competitively fair price down to the very moment (tick) when you push a button and trade a currency. the FX markets has a few problems but exemplifying the hypocrisy of free enterprise is not one of them. |
| CFAJ | the next marxist revolution has begun, here in the comments section of the fabled "analystnotes" |
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Learning Outcome Statements
calculate and interpret the bid-ask spread on a spot or forward foreign currency quotation and describe the factors that affect the bid-offer spread;
identify a triangular arbitrage opportunity and calculate its profit, given the bid-offer quotations for three currencies;
CFA® 2025 Level II Curriculum, Volume 1, Module 8.