The Markets This Week - 21/10/22
Investor Weekly provides a weekly summary of the moves in the main market indexes that should matter to retail investors this week.
These graphs allow you to navigate through the noise of news sites discussing bull and bear markets, and shouting of supposed "crashes" and "booms".
Each week the daily prices are shown in the blue bars. The red line shows the changes as a percentage from day to day. By comparing the position of the red line from Monday to Friday, the savvy investor can maintain a clear perspective on what is really going on without any sensational headlines.
Investor Weekly Philosophy
Most retail investors should be invested either in world tracker funds , or proportionately invested by market size (capitalisation) in tracker funds that follow "mid-cap" companies in the major developed and emerging economies, and government bond fund in developed economies. This enables retail investors to achieve low cost, diversification and maximum market return.
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MSCI World
Around 1,500 of the largest companies in the World's developed markets. Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US.
MSCI Emerging Markets
Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey and United Arab Emirates.
FTSE 250
The UK's largest 250 companies by market capitalisation (size)
S&P 500
USA's largest 500 companies by market capitalisation.
Pacific (Developed Economies)
Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand.
Euro Next 100 (Europe's top 100 companies)
The Euronext 100 Index is the blue chip index of the pan-European exchange, Euronext NV.
