6. US investors buy $3-million worth real estate in Japan from a Chinese real-estate fund, paying from their account in Switzerland. 7. A Japanese insurance company purchases $US 1 million U.S. Treasury bonds and pays out of its bank account kept in New York City 8. Jorge Ramrez, a landscape architect residing in Monterrey, Mexico, works for three months in Durham, NC, creating an indoor garden for a newly built museum and receives wages for $45,000. 9. Jinill Park's mother, a resident of South Korea, pays her son's USD 50,000 tuition to Columbia University via a direct deposit. 10. The U.S. dollar depreciates by 10 percent vis-'a-vis the euro. US assets abroad (A) are denominated in Euro and US liabilities (L) are denominated in US Dollars