Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Investing in Chinese Renminbi (Yuan)

Morgan Stanley last week launched two new ETNs. One of them track the Chinese Renminbi (CNY) and the other tracks the Indian Rupee (INR). To my knowledge these are the first financial instruments available to get exposure to both currencies. If I could put 100% of my cash into Chinese Renminbi I would unfortunately these ETNs have some hair. One is that they are unsecured debt of Morgan Stanley. I would put Morgan Stanley up there with Goldman Sachs as the strongest brokerage houses on Wall St but do you really want to be taking on what is essentially unsecured debt of one of the big brokerage houses? Also I think you may only be earning the treasury yield in interest payments. Thanks goes to Jared for bringing this to my attention.

http://www.pr-inside.com/morgan-stanley-launches-chinese-and-r491027.htm

Morgan Stanley announced today that it will issue two exchange-traded notes, Market Vectors-Chinese Renminbi/USD ETN (NYSE Arca:CNY) and Market Vectors-Indian Rupee/USD ETN (NYSE Arca:INR), which will be traded on NYSE Arca.

Market Vectors Currency ETNs are senior, unsecured debt securities of Morgan Stanley that deliver exposure to the exchange rate of a specific foreign currency.

Also Wisdom Tree is apparently bringing out etfs that would allow you to invest in the Indian Rupee, Chinese Renminbi, Brazilian real and others. I don't know when these would be coming out.

http://indexuniverse.com/sections/breaking-news/10/3558.html

The new WisdomTree currency ETFs would open exposure for the first time to U.S. investors to the Brazilian real, the Chinese yuan, the Indian rupee, the New Zealand dollar, the South African rand and the South Korean won.

By the way, Iceland raised their interest rate to 15% overnight. I do not know if there is opportunity there but a 15% interest rate sure seems appealing. Iceland has some problems like everything now days seems to have but the risk reward return profile could be very appealing.

http://www.bonds.is/

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