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Year-to-date, major index returns in double digits would suggest good things have happened so far.
Meanwhile, the MSCI Brazil index, which tracks the Bovespa, is down 9.5 percent year to date while the MSCI Emerging Markets index is up 7.96 percent over the same period.
Indeed, profits of those 188 companies reporting to-date in the MSCI World Index have beaten forecasts by nearly 9%!
The Russell 2000 small-cap index is down 3.56% year to date, despite a strong fourth quarter in which the index has recovered 16% so far.
In the year to date, the MSCI Emerging Markets index has risen more than 20% in dollar terms.
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The popularly traded iShares MSCI Brazil (EWZ) exchange traded fund is down 4.3% year-to-date while the MSCI Emerging Markets index is up 3.39%.
Vale shares are down 13.3 percent year to date, underperforming the MSCI Brazil index (down 3.85 percent) and the MSCI Emerging Markets index (up 11.47 percent).
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The iShares MSCI Brazil (EWZ) exchange traded fund is down 7.6 percent year to date while the MSCI Emerging Markets index is up by nearly 16 percent.
The iShares FTSE China ( FXI) exchange traded fund is up 3.39 percent year-to-date, outperforming the MSCI Emerging Markets index.
The ETF is down 2.35 percent year to date, while the MSCI Emerging Markets index is up 3.7 percent over the same period.
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The iShares MSCI Brazil (EWZ) exchange traded fund is down 5.96 percent year to date, while the MSCI Emerging Markets index is up 8.8 percent.
The financial and real estate heavy iShares FTSE China ( FXI) exchange traded fund is up 2.05 percent year to date, beating the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.
The total number of index crimes year-to-date is 79, 335, an increase of 3, 015 over the same period last year, or an increase of 4%.
The Market Vectors Russia exchange traded fund is up 0.51% in mid-afternoon trading on Thursday, but is down 14.13% year to date, vastly underperforming the MSCI Emerging Markets index, which is down around 7.3% as of April 18.
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You'd index it by wife, honeymoon, date, location and any other criteria that might occur to you in the future when you went looking for it.
The Nasdaq Biotech Index is up 42% year to date, fueled in large part by successful clinical trials of several experimental drugs that were proven effective in stopping the spread of cancer.
For the next five years, the index is measured on the anniversary of that date.
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The fund is up 13 percent year to date, closely in line with the MSCI Emerging Markets index.
The biggest Russian ETF traded in New York is up 26.5% year-to-date ending June 2, while the MSCI Emerging Markets index is up 24.3%.
However, the committee will have drawn scant comfort from the more subdued picture painted by the official index since it is two months out of date.
Alternatively, target-date funds should begin to rely more heavily on ETFs and index funds to build their models.
This year, the Dow Jones Shanghai Index is up 12.46% year to date.
The ETF is down over 8% year-to-date, making China an underperformer of the MSCI Emerging Markets index yet again.
This was a valid comparison on December 31, 1998, the date to which BofA Merrill Lynch has retroactively created its new index.
The stock hit a 19-month high on Tuesday, and year to date it has already tripled the return of the broad Nasdaq index.
Year-to-date, it's nearly flat, while the bond index is up 5.9%.
Emerging markets often spring such surprises, but the Morgan Stanley Capital International Emerging Asia Index is up 18% in the year to date, following four consecutive annual increases.
The Russell Global Index, which launched in 2006 with 10, 000 global stocks in 61 countries, reported that year to date through Nov. 12 four of the five top global index performers were emerging markets, with Indonesia at the top having returned 44.6%, followed by Turkey, Mexico and India.
The iShares MSCI Brazil ( EWZ) exchange traded fund, which tracks that index, is down 5.5 percent year to date.
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