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Market Risk Management
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
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Market Risk Management

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Market Risk Management

Interest Rate Risk

We have interest rate exposure arising from our financing facilities, which have variable interest rates.  These variable interest rates are affected by changes in short-term interest rates.  We currently do not hedge our interest rate exposure.

We do not believe that the effect of reasonably possible near-term changes in interest rates will be material to our financial position, results of operations and cash flows.  Our financing facilities expose our net earnings to changes in short-term interest rates since interest rates on the underlying obligations are variable.  We had $570,706,000 outstanding under our ABL facility and $284,836,000 outstanding under our senior convertible notes at December 31, 2019.  The interest rate attributable to the borrowings under our ABL facility and our senior convertible notes was 2.94% and 0.75%, respectively, per annum at December 31, 2019.  The change in annual pre-tax earnings from operations resulting from a hypothetical 10% increase or decrease in the applicable interest rate would have been immaterial.

Although our senior convertible notes are based on a fixed rate, changes in interest rates could impact the fair market value of such notes.  As of December 31, 2019, the fair market value of our convertible senior notes was $414,295,000.   

Foreign Currency Exchange Risk

We have foreign currency exchange risk related to the translation of our foreign subsidiaries’ operating results, assets and liabilities (see Note 1 for a description of our Foreign Currencies policy).  We also maintain cash accounts denominated in currencies other than the functional currency, which expose us to fluctuations in foreign exchange rates.  Remeasurement of these cash balances results in gains/losses that are also reported in other expense (income), net within non-operating (income) expense.  We monitor our foreign currency exposure and selectively enter into forward exchange contracts to mitigate risk associated with certain non-functional currency monetary assets and liabilities related to foreign denominated payables, receivables and cash balances.  Transaction gains and losses resulting from non-functional currency assets and liabilities are offset by gains and losses on forward contracts in non-operating (income) expense, net in our consolidated statements of operations.  The counterparties associated with our foreign exchange forward contracts are large creditworthy commercial banks.  The derivatives transacted with these institutions are short in duration and, therefore, we do not consider counterparty concentration and non-performance to be

material risks.  The Company does not have a significant concentration of credit risk with any single counterparty.