Stock Investing For Dummies, 6th Edition

Chapter 18

International Stock Investing Opportunities

IN THIS CHAPTER

Buying an international stock conveniently

Investing globally with an exchange-traded fund

Looking at resources for international investing help

I am a biased guy — I think that the stock market in the United States is the best out there. But you can’t ignore the rest of the world, especially if there are great investment opportunities that could nicely complement your domestic portfolio. That’s why this chapter is included — profitable opportunities keep your portfolio’s growth humming along.

In this chapter, I focus on the easiest ways for you to invest internationally and notable regions and countries to consider (or avoid) for 2020–2021 and beyond.

Investigating the Basics of International Stock Investing

As with stocks in the United States, you look at an individual international stock with the same lens. You look at the fundamentals — the company’s profit, sales, assets, market dominance, and so on. (See Part 3 for more details on picking winning stocks.) But the greatest difference is that company’s operating environment. The investing environment may be either hospitable and similar to U.S. stock markets, ...