熱錢
hot money / (refugee capital)
指為追求最高報酬及最低風險而在國際金融市場上迅速流動的短期投機性資金。國際閒短期資金的投機性移動主要是逃避政治風險,追求匯率變動,重要商品價格變動或國際有價證券價格變動的利益,而熱錢即為追求匯率變動利益的投機性行?。當投機者預期某種通貨的價格將下跌時,便出售該通貨的遠期外匯,以期在將來期滿之後,可以較低的即期外匯買進而賺取此一匯兌差價的利益。由於此純屬買空賣空的投機行?,故與套匯不同。在外匯市場上,由於此種投機性資金常自有貶值傾向的貨幣轉換成有升值傾向的貨幣,增加了外匯市場的不穩定性,因此,只要預期的心理存在,唯有讓升值的貨幣大幅波動或實行外匯管制,才能阻止這種投機性資金的流動。
Refers to the pursuit of the highest paid and the lowest risk in the international financial markets, the rapid movement of short-term speculative capital. International free movement of speculative short-term funds mainly to escape the political risk, the pursuit of exchange rate fluctuations, commodity price changes or the vital interests of the international securities price changes, exchange rate changes and the pursuit of hot money is the interest of speculative behavior. When speculators expect the price of a currency will fall when they sell the currency forward exchange, with a view to the future after the expiration, you can buy a lower spot foreign exchange earned this exchange rate difference of interest. Because this is purely fictitious speculation, arbitrage and so different. In the foreign exchange market, because such currency devaluation of speculative funds often own tendency to be converted into currency appreciation tends to increase the instability of the foreign exchange market, so long as the expected psychological presence, only to let the currency appreciate sharply fluctuations or exchange controls in order to stop this flow of speculative capital.