“As we have been writing for many years, and as we highlighted in our Weiss Global Forum this past summer, key emerging markets are — and should continue to be — greatly outperforming the Dow across the board. Starting at the close of trading in 2008 and excluding the last few days of trading this year which are still to come,” Martin Weiss Reports From Money and Markets.

 

• If you had invested $10,000 in the average Dow stocks, you’d now have a gain of $1,640 for the year. Meanwhile …
• If you had invested that same $10,000 in (FXI), a leading ETF which tracks China’s blue chips, you would have made more than twice as much, with a gain of $3,613, and …
• With the ETF tracking Brazil’s leading stocks (EWZ), you could have put all of the above to shame — achieving a gain of $10,117, or over SIX times more than the Dow.

 

A few things which drove these returns include:

“In the U.S., despite the biggest fiscal and monetary stimulus in our lifetime, the economic recovery remains one of the weakest in the world. China has just become the world’s second-largest economy, leaping ahead of Japan, which had held this distinction for nearly half a century. India is not far behind: Since 2003, it has chalked up an impressive growth, averaging 8.5 percent annually. This year, despite the global crisis, its growth is likely to come in at over 7 percent. And right now, it’s already gaining momentum for an expected 8 percent expansion in 2010. Brazil, in my view, is the strongest BRIC country. Most important, Brazil’s recent growth has been largely fueled by a dramatic expansion of the middle class and a reduction in the poverty rate. Tens of millions of citizens who were outside the economy — without a penny of savings or even a formal address — now have steady income, bank accounts, credit, cell phones, and most important, the ability to consume,” Weiss Reports.

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The investment (EWZ) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of publicly traded securities in the Brazilian market, as measured by the MSCI Brazil index. The fund normally invests at least 95% of assets in the securities of its underlying index and in ADRs based on the securities in its underlying index. It uses a representative sampling strategy to try to track the index. The index consists of stocks traded primarily on the Bolsa de Valores de So Paulo. It is nondiversified.

TOP 10 HOLDINGS (EWZ) ( 64.16% OF TOTAL ASSETS)

Company Symbol % Assets Ambev Cia De Bebid Pfd N/A 3.19 Banco Bradesco N/A 4.77 Cia Siderurgica Belgo-Mineira N/A 3.01 Gerdau SA N/A 3.69 Itau Unibanco Banco Multiplo N/A 7.81 OGX PETROLEO-ON EB NM (OGXP3.SA) 2.37 Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Preference) N/A 12.54 PETROBRAS -ON EJ (PETR3.SA) 10.25 Vale N/A 9.46 VALE S.A. ADS (VALE) 7.07

The investment (PIN) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Indus India index. The fund normally invests substantially all of the assets in a wholly-owned subsidiary in Mauritius. It will normally invest at least 90% of total assets in securities that comprise the index and ADRs based on the securities in the index. This fund is nondiversified.

TOP 10 HOLDINGS (PIN) ( 54.09% OF TOTAL ASSETS)

Company Symbol % Assets Bharti Airtel Ltd. N/A 4.22 HDFC Bank, Ltd. N/A 2.73 Hindustan Unilever Ltd. N/A 3.99 INDIAN OIL C (IOC.BO) 3.5 Infosys Technologies, Ltd. N/A 10.35 NTPC LTD INR10 (NTPC.BO) 2.71 OIL AND NATURAL GAS CORP. (ONGC.NS) 8.28 Reliance Communications Limited (RCOM.NS) 2.89 Reliance Industries Ltd. N/A 12.76 TATA CONSULTANCY SERV LT (TCS.NS) 2.66

The investment (FXI) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the FTSE/Xinhua China 25 index. The fund generally invests at least 90% of assets in securities of the Underlying index and in depositary receipts representing securities of the Underlying index. The Underlying index consists of 25 of the largest and most liquid Chinese companies. It may invest the remainder of assets in securities not included in its Underlying index but which BGFA believes will help the fund track the Underlying index. The fund is nondiversified.

TOP 10 HOLDINGS (FXI) ( 61.42% OF TOTAL ASSETS)

Company Symbol % Assets Bank of China Ltd N/A 5.83 China Citic Bank Corporation Limited N/A 4.01 China Construction Bank Corporation N/A 9.11 China Life Insurance Company, Ltd. N/A 8.72 China Merchants Bank Co.,limited N/A 4.47 China Mobile Ltd. N/A 9.27 China Shenhua Energy Company Limited N/A 4.33 CNOOC, Ltd. N/A 3.98 Industrial & Commercial Bank of China N/A 7.35 Ping An Insurance (group) Company Of China, Ltd. N/A 4.35

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