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The article discusses the consequences of the U.S. Federal Reserve's (Fed) interest rate reversal in 2019. Topics discussed include how the Fed's decision helped halt and partly reverse December 2018's stock sell-off, stress in the market for corporate bonds in December 2018 and implications of the rising value of the dollar.

The article reports that data from the U.S. Treasury Department show that foreign investors put $42.5 billion in American stocks and $68.6 billion in American corporate bonds and $42.5 billion in May 2007. The data show that American companies are becoming more popular in overseas. The article offers two charts and two graphs that depict net purchases of U.S. bonds and stocks by foreign investors.