International equities are leading U.S. stocks this year. For example, developed European markets are well ahead of American stocks at least so far this year. The year-to-date returns of some of the major equity markets are listed below: S&P 500 Index: 2.39% Canada’s S & P/TSX Composite: 2.1% UK’s FTSE 100: 7.0% France’s CAC 40: …
Emerging markets have been laggards in the past few years compared to their developed world peers. Among the developed stocks, U.S. stocks especially had a superb run last year compared to European stocks. However this year, the tables seem to have turned with European stocks outperforming American stocks so far. With the poor performance of emerging stocks …
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The FTSE 100 Index closed at 7,022 yesterday. It has taken UK’s benchmark index to cross the 7,000 level. Almost 17 years ago the FTSE first reached 6,000. Though the index has reached a milestone, the performance is not that great compared to the S&P 500. U.S. stock have outperformed the FTSE 100 by a wide margin in …
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China and India rank the first and second in terms of population.Each country is home to more than one billion people. While India is a democratic country with a multitude of political parties China is a communist country with only the communist party allowed to exist. The economic system in China is unique and is …
