International Stock Markets (52-week performance)

International Stock Markets

• AMERICAS
• EUROPE
• ASIA/PACIFIC
• MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA

Key Indexes	At 8:46 PM ET At least 15-minute delay	Change	% change	1 month	1 year	LowHigh52-week
Nikkei 225 JAPAN	8,314.74	–33.53	–0.40%	–4.20%	–17.80%
Closed for holiday, prices at close 11/22/2011
Hang Seng HONG KONG	17,902.02	–349.57	–1.92%	–0.69%	–21.81%
Shanghai Composite CHINA	2,415.36	+2.74	+0.11%	+4.23%	–14.60%
All Ordinaries AUSTRALIA	4,161.40	–42.77	–1.02%	–1.00%	–11.02%
NSE 50 INDIA	4,812.35	+34.00	+0.71%	–4.70%	–19.93%
At close 9:01 PM ET 11/22/2011
STI SINGAPORE	2,679.55	–37.65	–1.39%	–1.21%	–14.29%
KOSPI KOREA	1,826.28	+6.25	+0.34%	–0.66%	–5.32%
BSE 30 INDIA	16,065.42	+119.32	+0.75%	–4.29%	–19.50%
TSE 50 TAIWAN	4,797.27	–72.82	–1.50%	–3.73%	–16.04%
KLSE Composite MALAYSIA	1,428.63	–9.36	–0.65%	–0.71%	–3.96%

Coming Market Holidays

http://markets.on.nytimes.com/research/markets/worldmarkets/worldmarkets.asp

Global Stock Markets Increase By 26% In 2010

Global Stock Markets Increase By 26% In 2010
By Mark Perry on January 15, 2011

The World Federation of Exchanges reported this week that the total value of equities trading on the world’s major stock exchanges reached $54.9 trillion in December, the highest world stock market capitalization since May 2008 (see chart above). During 2010 the world stock market value increased by 26%, or by $11.3 trillion over the 12-month period, from $43.6 trillion in December 2009. From the February 2009 cyclical low of $26.6 trillion, world equity values have more than doubled, and have gained back about $28.3 trillion of the $36.4 trillion lost during 2008 because of the global financial crisis.

Further evidence of a global stock market recovery is shown in the chart below of the daily MSCI World Stock Market Index, which closed yesterday at 1308, the highest closing value since early September 2008.

http://www.dailymarkets.com/economy/2011/01/15/global-stock-markets-increase-by-26-in-2010/

Year-to-date performance of major world indices (1H09)

World Stock Markets, Now vs Then

World Stock Markets, Now vs Then

Source: Global Financial Database.

(The above graph tracks behaviour after the peaks in world industrial production, which occurred in June 1929 and April 2008.)

While the fall in US stock market has tracked 1929, global stock markets are falling even faster now than in the Great Depression (Figure). Again this is contrary to the impression left by those who, basing their comparison on the US market alone, suggest that the current crash is no more serious than that of 1929-30.

Also read:

Market Performance Around Recessions

World industrial production, trade and stock markets are diving faster now than during 1929-30.

Benjamin Graham 113 wise words

Just reminding myself and this may also be useful for some who are following this blog:

"The true investor scarcely ever is forced to sell his shares, and at all times he is free to disregard the current price quotation. He need pay attention to it and act upon it only to the extent that it suits his book, and no more.* Thus the investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage. That man would be better off if his stocks had no market quotation at all, for he would then be spared the mental anguish caused him by other persons' mistakes of judgement." - Benjamin Graham

In these 113 words Graham summarised his lifetime of experience.

If you keep them close at hand and let them guide you throughout your investing life, you will survive whatever the markets throw at you.

For those wishing to monitor the various stock market indices in the world, visit this site.
World Market Index http://www.indexq.org/