• Use this web site to assess recent trends in direct foreign investment (DFI) abroad by U.S.firms. Compare the DFI in the United Kingdom with the DFI in France. Offer a possible reason for the large...

Please select THREE of the following exercises and post your answers on the Dropbox. 1.    Visit the web site of the Bureau of Economic Analysis at  HYPERLINK "http://www.bea.gov/" \t "_blank" www.bea.gov. Use this web site to assess recent trends in direct foreign investment (DFI) abroad by U.S.firms. Compare the DFI in the United Kingdom with the DFI in France. Offer a possible reason for the large difference. Based on the recent trends in DFI, are U.S.-based multinational enterprises pursuing opportunities in Asia? In eastern Europe? In Latin America? 2.    Visit the International Money Laundering Network Services Association HYPERLINK "http://www.imolin.org/" \t "_blank" http://www.imolin.org. Find out the latest information on what organizations are doing to ensure international monetary transfers remain out of terrorists’ hands. Summaries your findings. 3.    The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis provides a large amount of recent open-economy macroeconomic data online. Use the following addresses to track down recent BOP and GDP data for the major industrial countries. For recent international economic data:  HYPERLINK "http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/iet" \t "_blank" http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/iet For Balance of Payments statistics:  HYPERLINK "http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/categories/125" \t "_blank" http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/categories/125 4.    The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) publishes detailed measures of prices and purchasing power for its member countries. Use the OECD’s web site  HYPERLINK "http://www.oecd.org/" \t "_blank" http://www.oecd.org to download the historical data for purchasing power for the member countries. 5.    Visit the web site of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) at  HYPERLINK "http://www.cme.com/" \t "_blank" http://www.cme.com Go to section on “Prices” and then to the “Daily and Weekly Charts.” Describe the trend of a peso...