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Measuring the information content of customer foreign exchange orders

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  • Sviatoslav Rosov

    (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK)

  • F. Douglas Foster

    (UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

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This paper investigates whether customer order flow conveys information about future foreign exchange (FX) prices. We use a unique data set from a leading Australian commercial bank that records every FX trade made by the bank in the spot Australian dollar/US dollar market between 2005 and 2010. We find little evidence in support of a cointegrating relation or a statistically significant correlation between customer order flow and FX returns. However, consistent with the liquidity provision role of non-financial customers in Evans and Lyons ((2002) Order flow and exchange rate dynamics. Journal of Political Economy 110: 170–180), we find a statistically significant negative correlation between order flow from the diversified economic sector and FX returns. A dynamic analysis suggests that order flow has little or no price impact on FX returns. These results suggest that the non-financial customer order flow of a commercial bank does not carry information about FX prices.

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  • Sviatoslav Rosov & F. Douglas Foster, 2014. "Measuring the information content of customer foreign exchange orders," Australian Journal of Management, Australian School of Business, vol. 39(2), pages 247-264, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ausman:v:39:y:2014:i:2:p:247-264
    DOI: 10.1177/0312896213478435
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    Customer orders; foreign exchange; information flows;
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    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors

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