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Do you understand how Public Deficits, Foreign Debts, trends in Currency Exchange Rates and Current Account Deficits impact the investment opportunities in the different markets around the world? To do so, a sound understanding is required of each of these economic concepts and how they interact with each other.

This article is a first in a series of five that explains the economic concepts of Current Account, Capital Account and Reserve Account and how they relate with foreign debts and public deficits. If you are interested to get an understanding of how the economy works, how money flows between nations and its impact on currency trends and the economic well-being of nations, please read on.

The question on why the Japanese Yen is now so strong against the U.S. Dollar is asked repeatedly the last few weeks, months and years.

The Yen reached recently a 15-year high against the Dollar. Was this in line with expectations? What is happening and what is causing this? Here are the analysis and conclusions on why the Yen is so strong.

When one of our readers asked for a chart of the Nifty, we wondered how the Sensex and Nifty correlate. Sensex is the index of the BSE (Bombay/Mumbai Stock Exchange) and Nifty is the index of the NSE, the National Stock Exchange of India.

See the Yahoo Answers page here for more background on the Sensex, BSE, Nifty and NSE.