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switching

A Dictionary of Business and Management | 2006 | © A Dictionary of Business and Management 2006, originally published by Oxford University Press 2006. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

switching
1. Using the cash from the sale of one investment to purchase another. This may, or may not, involve a liability for capital gains tax, depending on the circumstances.

2. Closing an open position in a commodity market and opening a similar position in the same commodity but for a different delivery period. For example, a trader may switch a holding of sugar for October delivery FOB to an equal quantity of sugar for March delivery FOB for the next year.

3. A country's intervention in the international currency market to stop an outflow of its currency.

4. Exporting and importing through a third nation, where the currency paying for the goods can be easily exchanged into one acceptable to the seller.

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