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Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market

every day.

It's Monday, May 14th, and we're kicking off our international theme week by talking about, well, international in financials.

Folks, industry focus is a US-based podcast talking about the US stock market,

so we spend most of our time talking about, well, domestic companies.

But there's a whole world of stocks out there and no portfolio is truly diversified without

international exposure. So this week, we decided to change things up by focusing on international stories

Every host is interpreting this a little bit differently the way we've chosen to interpret this on financial show for the inaugural show of this theme week is to talk about US stocks with

significant international exposure. Other folks will be talking about stocks

that are actually or companies that are actually based in foreign countries.

And we like to take sort of that motley approach to how we interpret the theme week.

So we're going to start off with a general discussion on international investing just kind of introducing the topic and then we'll talk about some of those specific companies after the break.

So first off then, let's talk about international investing and well the different ways you can

invest.

Sure.

I mean the most obvious way is to just buy a stock that is a company that is outside of the US.

But that's not for everybody. We'll get into the reasons in a minute. In addition to that, if you kind of just

want to set it on autopilot, you can use E.T.F. or mutual funded invest in foreign

companies. And like Michael said, the other way is to invest in U.S. stocks or stocks with substantial operations in the U.S. but they also have a lot of

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