The Forex Markets Today
By kickforex • May 14th, 2008 • Category: The History of Forex
Today, Forex is considered the largest financial market in the world. The volume of foreign currency transactions has experienced huge growth and continues to grow at a rapid rate . More than $2 trillion U.S. dollar is traded daily on the Forex. By comparison, $300 billion dollars is traded daily on the U.S. Treasury bond market and $100 billion dollars is traded daily on the U.S. stock market, for a total of $400 billion dollars per day. By comparison with the the other financial markets, we can easily know how enormous the Foreign Exchange really is.
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