The increase or decrease in the speed of payments received from foreign exchange transactions. The speed of payments increases if the exchange rates increase, and decrease if the exchange rates decrease. If investors expect the exchange rate to increase, they might rush payments ("leads") in order to improve their position. If they expect rates to fall they might wait on the payments ("lags").

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