The situation in Egypt continues to unfold with President Mubarak dismissing his government today. As a result of the unrest, Egyptian equities have performed poorly so far this year. The stock market crashed 10% yesterday following another 6% fall the day before. The EGX 30 Index is down about 21% YTD. The only country-specific ETF …
The following are some of the key takeaways from a review of the 2010 performance of equity markets around the world: 1. Stock markets can rise despite low or poor economic growth. The U.S. market was a perfect example of this scenario. While the US economy continued to struggle last year with high unemployment rates, …
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The MSCI indices are a group of indices that measure the performance of individual countries, regions, etc. ETFs and other products use these indices as benchmarks to track their performance. Hence it is important to analyze the performance of these indices at least annually. Lets take a quick look at the MSCI Index performance for …
The chart below shows the performance of all the exchange-listed foreign bank stocks for 2010: Click to enlarge Due to the sovereign debt crisis, European banks were some of the worst performers last year. Irish banks were crushed again as Ireland was on the verge of total collapse. Allied Irish Bank(AIB) was nationalized in December …
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