The forex or currency trading market is the largest financial market in the world with an estimated $4 trillion traded daily, dwarfing the daily volume of any global stock market. In the past, forex markets were available only to large corporations, governments, central banks and hedge funds but the spread of the internet in the mid 1990s made it possible to trade currencies electronically, anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day, with no physical exchange needed. The easily accessible internet spawned the birth of online trading which now offers even the smallest trader access to the financial market place.
The internet boom, the boom of mobile devices and the reduction of the market of personal computers end up with the leadership of the Windows monopoly.
Una iniciativa para llevar el acceso a Internet a los "próximos cinco mil millones de personas" ha sido creada por el fundador de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.
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