Given Floating Exchange Rates,a Simultaneous Decrease in the Canadian Demand

question 183

Multiple Choice

Given floating exchange rates,a simultaneous decrease in the Canadian demand for British products and increase in the British desire to invest in Canadian government securities would cause a (an) :

• A) Appreciation of the pound against the dollar
• B) Depreciation of the pound against the dollar
• C) Unchanged pound/dollar exchange rate
• D) None of the above

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