Forex

Forex is short for Foreign Exchange. It is when people trade different kinds of money from different countries. For example, if you live in the US, you might want to buy some Japanese Yen. So you would go to the Forex and trade your US Dollars for Japanese Yen. Then you could use the Japanese Yen to buy things in Japan.

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