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Japan Continues its 2010 Resurgence

Moby Waller — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100

We previously examined the performance of various country-specific ETFs in 2010 and Japan (EWJ) and Russia (RSX) were standouts. This trend has shown no sign of abating, and may well continue throughout 2010. In particular Japan, which has been a "dead money" market for about 20 years now, may be poised for relative outperformance gains in 2010 vis-a-vis some other major country ETFs.

The other international ETFs profiled in the chart include India (PIN) in purpl [...]

Russia & Japan Leading the Way in 2010

Moby Waller — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

I took a look at about 15 of the major single-country ETFs in terms of 2010 performance. There were 2 clear names topping the list and 2 lagging the pack: Russia (RSX) and Japan (EWJ) were the outperformers, both up over 7% YTD. China (FXI) and Brazil (EWZ) are the laggards thus far, each down over 1% in 2010.

Hard to say what the causation/correlation is between these countries at this point, because Russia and Brazil are often considered "commodity play" [...]