World stock markets outperform US indices

World the most followed stock market index, the S&P 500, had risen 17.4 percent this year when the US market closed on Monday.

At the same time, the MSCI All Country World ex-US index, which follows the development of the world’s stock markets excluding the United States, had risen by 29 percent.

Financial Times (FT) by the divergence between the two markets was the largest since the 2009 financial crisis.

For the euro investor This year’s return on the S&P 500 investment has remained at a fairly modest level of around 1.5 percent, while at the same time the euro has strengthened against the dollar by 13.7 percent since the beginning of the year.

For comparison, the domestic OMX Helsinki 25 index, whose return since the beginning of the year is 30 percent.

In other ways too This year, the United States was overwhelmed by the hefty rate hikes in the rest of the world.

Germany’s DAX index has risen by 21.7 percent this year, and the STOXX 600 index, which follows Europe’s major companies, had risen by 15.6 percent since the beginning of the year on Tuesday.

in Europe banks and the defense industry were the big risers of the year.

In southern Europe, the price increases were even higher in some places than in Finland: Spain’s Ibex index was up 35 percent since the beginning of the year on Monday, and Greece’s Athex index was up 44 percent, FT reports.

Be brisk price increases have also resulted in many Asian markets this year.

China’s MSCI China index has risen by 29 percent and Hong Kong’s general index Hang Seng by almost 28 percent.

of Japan Topix-index ended up 23.7 percent higher than the beginning of the year at the end of trading on Tuesday.

In Vietnam, the VN index was up 39.5 percent since the beginning of the year on Tuesday.