Exploring Market Capitalization of Assets Around the Globe - By AMATEUR WRITER
Since lack of accuracy in this article, but it's good to know the visualization of how the money circulates. Valuing assets is base on people believed to be valuable due to its services and also base on speculation that believed it has potential.
The amount of money around the world will blow your mind; money serves as a fuel that keeps our world running, it is a tool that solves problem in our daily lives. So if you keep solving problems, banks will keep printing money for you, so enjoy and have fun reading it. :)
| Global Assets | Market Cap |
|---|---|
| Silver | $17+- billion |
| Cryptocurrency | $450+- billion |
| Gold | $7.6+- trillion |
| Stock Maket | $73+- trillion |
| Real Estate | $217+- trillion |
| Derivatives | $544+- trillion |
Silver
In early days, silver serves as a currency medium of exchange, but due to its scarcity it became a precious metal. And nowadays it has a market cap of approximately $17 billion.
Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency is not just a currency but it also has many applications and it's peer to peer transfer of value through blockchain network, without meddling government, banks and any other third party. The users of cryptocurrencies are all over the world mostly from Asia, Europe,North/South America, and Canada. It has now a market cap around $450 billion at the time of writing.
Gold
Gold is one of the wonders of the world with a bloody history. Before it was a medium of exchange, but due to its scarcity it became a precious metal or commodity and it also serves as a hedge to any future financial uncertainty. It has now a market cap of Approx. $7.6 trillion.
Stock Market
Stock market is another gateway to finance the company. One of the famous public company is Apple Inc. valued close to $800 billion. Since America dominated 38% value of Global stock market which valued $73 trillion.
Real Estate
Real Estate is one of the best investment so far, a tangible asset with a low volatility and prices keep climbing. One of the famous mogul in the field of real estate is the US president Donal Trump.
Derivatives
Derivatives is such an abstract way to comprehend, the sophistication of many applications of this financial device such as hedging and to bet speculating future prices between two or more party. There's a lot of criticism regarding this kind of financial invention, one of the critic is the legendary stock guru, Warren Buffet,
"Derivatives are Financial Weapon of Mass Destruction".
But many elites love this kind of asset like the well known George Soros, who runs one of the largest hedge fund. The value of Derivatives Market is staggering at least $544 trillion.
Sources:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/derivative.asp
http://money.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-money-markets-one-visualization-2017/
https://www.pexels.com
https://coinmarketcap.com