Currency Update – Current Threats to the U.S. Dollar’s Global Role

Currency Update – Current Threats to the U.S. Dollar’s Global Role

Last month, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva urged developing countries around the world to start using alternatives to the U.S. dollar in international trade and investing. In conjunction with that, Brazil and Argentina began to explore the possibility of a common currency, partially to circumvent the need for U.S. dollars in many cross-border transactions between the two countries. 

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Emerging Markets & State Owned Enterprises

Emerging Markets & State Owned Enterprises

About 43% of world’s market capitalization is found outside of the United States. Said another way, if you were to take every stock in the world and multiply its total available shares outstanding by it’s price, you would find that roughly 43% of that value is outside of the US. You may be surprised by this statistic given how much attention is paid to the US economy and markets. It’s understandable given most of our business and financial decisions are focused to events happening within the US. However, when it comes to investing, a global perspective is needed. For the purposes of this paper, we are focusing on one area of international markets: Emerging Markets.

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