Global investing is different than investing in your home country in many ways.
For example: If a Canadian investor buys shares from a Japanese company, these shares will depend on the stock price. If the stock price goes up the investment goes up.
Lets assume you did a research about your investment in Canada and you found out that the company produced new i phone 4. Most probably the new product lot of people will buy it. When most people buy the product the stock price will increase so the company will gain more money and your investment will increase and be successful.
However, if your stock decreases your investment also decreases if not many people bought the product the company will decrease its stock price and your investment will decrease.
The ideal scenario is being right about both: the stock price goes up and you get an extra benefit from a strengthening of the currency. The worst case: the stock goes down and the currency loses value relative to the dollar. In other cases, the results will be mixed. No matter what, you can’t afford to ignore the currency effect
http://internationalinvest.about.com/od/gettingstarted/a/currencyeffect.htm
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