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The World Is Your Oyster

JEFF D. OPDYKE covers investing and personal finance for The Wall Street Journal and is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal Sunday supplement syndicated in eighty newspapers nationwide. He is also the author of The Wall Street Journal Complete Personal Financial Guidebook and Love and Money.

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Title of ebook: The World Is Your Oyster
ISBN: 9780307409850
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Internet download file size: 2198 kb
Released online for download: 04-01-2008
Author of eBook: Opdyke, Jeff D.

Chapter One

Postcards from the Edge

Five Reasons to Go Global

Why go global?

When all is said and done, the answer defines this book.

Why, indeed, go to all the effort of putting money to work in places outside your home country when an abundance of opportunities to invest in some of the world's finest public companies exists right here in the fruited plains of the U.S. stock market? After all, in the world of 2007 more than 5,100 public companies carried the Made in America label, including some of the biggest, globally branded firms--McDonald's, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Wal-Mart, Exxon, and Boeing, to name but six. Own such companies and some portion of your money is at work in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and elsewhere. A Pakistani buys lemon-and-spice-flavored fries for lunch at a Mickie D's in Karachi, and you profit. An Argentine buys the family's household supplies while shopping at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Mendoza, and you profit. The United Arab Emirates' flag carrier, Etihad Airways, orders five Boeing 777 jets, a ... read full excerpt from The World Is Your Oyster ebook