Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Foreign Exchange

The foreign exchange is a broad term describing the markets and variables that allow people from different countries to make international financial transactions. For example, if investors in the United States want to buy shares of a company based in a member country of the European Union, they will first need to find out how many Euros each dollar is worth. Once the value is determined, which is called the exchange rate, they can then determine how many shares of the company they are able to buy. This process of converting one country's currency into another's is the driving force behind the foreign exchange and its financial markets.

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