Financial Transaction - Present Situation

Present Situation

In 1997, $1,300 million were exchanged every day on Foreign exchange market, about $475 billions per year.

The world financial transactions have jumped from $1,100,000 billions dollars in 2002 to $2,200,000 billions dollars in 2008 : 95% of this global amount is only used for speculation.

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