Bespoke data indicates that emerging markets were the stars in the past 10 years, as they far outperformed developed stock markets. Moreover, only 17 of the analyzed markets brought losses to their investors, including all but one of the stock markets in the group of the most industrialized seven nations (G7), namely the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy.
Bespoke calculated the evolution of benchmark stock exchange indexes from early 2000 to December 2009. In Romania’s case, the BET index, which follows the evolution of the ten most liquid shares, was analyzed.
The largest gain of all 73 markets was brought by the Ukrainian stock market, which grew 1,445 percent, while from the group of the largest emerging markets, known as BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), the highest growth rate, of 711 percent, was registered by the Russian stock market.
Of the G7 countries, Canada was the only one in the black, with an appreciation of 29 percent. At the other end was Japan, with a 49 percent loss. The markets in the United States and the United Kingdom each registered declines of some 24 percent.
