Posts Tagged ‘currency’

With enormous markets emerging across the world and the dollar continuing its decline, the suggestion that investors should increase their international exposure in order to have a balanced portfolio is worth looking at more closely. After all, investing in international equities helps diversify a portfolio by broadening currency risk and exposing the portfolio to new [...]

I just completed my September net worth review and noticed that I am actually less wealthy. While my net worth went up 1.24%, the value of U.S. dollar went down by 2.26%. You may think that this doesn’t concern you, but it does because we are an integral part of the global economy. For my [...]

After I wrote “The Weak Dollar is Killing Americans’ Wealth” for Consumerism Commentary last Thursday, I was still intrigued by this new perspective on wealth. As a visual person, I thought this alternative look at the same concept may be easier to grasp and would like to share it here.
Just press the big [...]

Last week the Federal Reserve cut interest rate by half a point. This reduction in its target short-term rate is the first cut in that benchmark since 2003. Let’s see what bloggers are saying about this:
Money and Such, How to Play the Fed Rate Cut (editor’s pick)
This is a very informative post that [...]