The global stock market today is something that is potential of bankruptcy or success. Depending on how you look at it, you may end up losing cash or you may end up gaining. If you are going to purchase stocks while they are plunging and risk the possibility of losing it completely, you may get a good deal out of it once the economy recovered. The economic bubble could pop once the saturation point has been met. This happened to Asia in 1997 and it happened in the US in the 1920s and it is currently happening now again.
What makes the global stocks better than local stocks is the fact that you could switch from one country to the other. And to make things easier, you could now use technology to sell or to buy stocks as if only playing monopoly. With this information, you have to know that the stock market is still risky.