The S&P 500 is up by just over 9.0% year-to-date. The MICEX Index, the benchmark of the Russian equity market is basically flat year-to-date. One of the indices on the Moscow Stock Exchange is the Blue Chip Index. Here is the description of the index from the exchange site: Moscow Exchange Blue Chip Index is an indicator of the …
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The Australian economy has performed relatively well among the developed economies. In fact, Australia escaped largely unscathed during the global financial crisis of 2008-09 when Europe and the U.S. economies went into a tailspin. According to a report by J.P.Morgan Australia has avoided recession for 23 years even beating the performance of The Netherlands. Australia’s economy has had positive …
One way to invest in foreign markets is by simply buying stocks of U.S. multinationals. With these firms investors need not worry too much about lack of transparency, governance, accounting issues, etc. as they follow U.S. laws and adhere to the standards common to businesses operating in the U.S. Hence by investing in these multinationals investors …
The Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns shows the annual returns for 20 years for many categories.It is a valuable tool to show the importance of diversification among asset classes. Similar to the Callan Table the following periodic table shows the annual returns for many single country emerging markets from 2004 thru 2013: Click to enlarge Source: US …
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The U.S.and other Western countries have imposed a wave of trade sanctions against Russia in the past few months. The goal of these sanctions is to weaken the Russian economy.However since Russia is very rich in all types of natural resources it remains to be seen if these sanctions have any impact in the coming …
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