The U.S. stock market hasn't been much to write home about, with the Standard & Poor's 500 coming off a rough two weeks that left it down 7.9% for 2011. But that beats the pounding investors who strayed outside the U.S. have gotten.
The Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (G-20, G20, Group of Twenty) is a group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 major economies: 19 countries plus the European Union, which is represented by the President of the European Council and by the European Central Bank.