Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Kirt Butler. Dr. Butler is a faculty in the Department of Finance and Director of Study Abroad for the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University, where he teaches international finance. He is author of Multinational Finance: Evaluating the Opportunities, Costs, and Risks of Multinational Operations.

Tomas Hult is Professor and Byington Endowed Chair in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.

Tomas and Kirt dialogue about the implications of the stock market in the U.S., which went up some 25 percent in 2017. Kirt has some astute takeaways related to this stock market increase for corporations and global financial markets, sharing historical stock market data and implications.