Draw the graph · Macro · Foreign exchange market

European interest rates rise

Quantity of the currencyExchange rate0DSE₀
Ddemand for the currency
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Ssupply of the currency
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Drag a curve sideways, or use its arrows. A curve you do not move is a curve you are saying stays put. Make each shift clear enough that a reader could see it.

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Demand for the currency stays put. Supply of the currency shifts right.

To buy euro bonds, American savers must sell dollars for euros. At every exchange rate they offer more dollars, so the supply of dollars shifts right. The demand for dollars is unchanged. The dollar depreciates.

The dollar depreciates against the euro and more dollars are traded.

Common mistake. Students often shift the demand for dollars right, the mirror image of the US-rate-hike case. Here the higher rate is abroad, so the flow runs out of dollars. That is supply.

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Lesson: Trade & Exchange Rates

Every prompt here is one shift. The course chains them: a lesson on why the curve moves, a graded drawing, and spaced review that brings back the shifts you get wrong.