The island's currency in July traded at a 14-year low against the U.S. dollar, and the benchmark stock index has lost as much as 60% since April 2000.
The benchmark stock index rose 1.4% to a record 1776.73 on Tuesday, after surging 3.4% on Monday, while Malaysia's ringgit currency gained 1.9% against the dollar in the first two trading days of the week.
Slim-controlled companies, most of them cobbled together into two main holding companies, Grupo Carso and Grupo Financiero Inbursa, account for half of the combined market cap of Mexico's benchmark stock index, the 35-stock Indice de Precios y Cotizaciones.
Brazil's benchmark stock market index, the Bovespa, is hovering around an alltime high, and the economy is booming.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index fell to 19 year lows in early September.
The benchmark Nikkei stock index ended the morning up 3.63% at 10, 573.
Similar to low-cost index mutual funds, ETFs track segments of the market and try to match a benchmark stock or bond index rather than beat it.
At 1381 the benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index, which doubled in 1999 from its 1998 Asia crisis lows, is now back down almost to crisis levels.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex index rose 3.2% to 8, 955.27, while the National Stock Exchange's Nifty index gained 3.1% to 2, 760.30.
Thanks to a roaring stock market whose benchmark index was up 53% in the past year and a strong rupee that appreciated 12%, for the first time all Indian rich listers are billionaires.
Despite the flooding, the 30-share benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange hit a record high on Tuesday.
Like its Mexican counterpart though, the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange's benchmark Bovespa index was 0.03% lower at 59, 253 points.
Its shares ended 2.6% down at 330.50 rupees on the Bombay Stock Exchange, where the benchmark index closed 0.6% lower.
In India, the Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark 30-share Sensex index was trading 436.27 points, or 4%, lower at 10, 398.05 after trading was suspended for an hour.
The Mexican stock market has performed well, with the benchmark IPC index up nearly 13% in 2012 and more than 20% in the last year.
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They closed 2.9% lower at 8.34 rupees (15 U.S. cents) on the Bombay Stock Exchange, underperforming a 0.1% rise in the benchmark index.
The country's Sensitive Index, or Sensex, was the worst-performing major stock-market benchmark in the region in 2011, sliding 24.6%.
The stock market in the Philippines is up 20%, Indonesia's benchmark has gained 17%, and Thailand index has jumped more than 13%.
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