The Almanac of Global Equities: 2021–31: Your guide to earning profits (and avoiding losses) from trading the world´s most liquid stock markets

This book has been updated for 2022 under the title "The Almanac of Global Equities: 2022–32: Your guide to earning profits (and avoiding losses) from trading the world´s most liquid stock markets"A cutting-edge guide to the world´s stock markets. Stock markets were a mixed bag in 2020. The Nasdaq finished the year up over 44%, while the UK’s FTSE 100 posted a 14% loss. This book explains why neither market will repeat those runs anytime soon.Finding the market that best treats your savings is a challenge. Using data on past trends and cycles, Dr. David J. Howden provides a roadmap for the next decade of equity returns. This almanac of stock indexes from around the world takes the reader on a centuries-long tour of the most widely traded stock markets and points to where they will go in the future—and where to secure superior returns.Dr. Howden’s statistical methods are intuitive yet sophisticated. With over thirty-one centuries of financial data under examination, this book supports the idea that while the future doesn’t repeat, it does rhyme. Drawing on more than fifteen years of experience in analyzing financial markets, Dr. Howden guides the investor through the sometimes-overwhelming world of equity markets. The book’s forecasts of the forty-two most highly traded stock indexes simplify trading decisions for the reader and let him invest his savings where markets will treat his money best.The book’s hundreds of high-quality charts let the reader visualize the historical trends, and its many tables bring together its most essential findings.All investors—from the institutional to the uninitiated—can benefit from this book’s practical and thorough analysis.Argentine stocks are the most undervalued in the world today; Taiwanese equities are the most overvalued. What about the rest of the world? The Almanac of Global Equities gives a comprehensive answer to that question and others—and serves as your essential guide to the coming decade.The Almanac offers full coverage of thirty-seven of the most widely traded equity markets as represented by their primary stock indexes:Argentina: S&P MERVALAustralia: All OrdinariesAustria: Austrian Traded IndexBelgium: BEL 20Brazil: IbovespaCanada: S&P/TSX CompositeChile: S&P/CLX IPSAChina: SSE Composite IndexDenmark: OMX Copenhagen 25Euro area: EURO STOXX 50Finland: OMX Helsinki 25France: CAC 40Germany: DAXGlobal: MSCI WorldGreece: Athens General CompositeHong Kong: Hang SengIndia: S&P BSE SENSEXIndonesia: IDX CompositeIreland: ISEQ 20Italy: FTSE MIBJapan: TOPIXMexico: S&P/BMV IPCNetherlands: AEXNew Zealand: S&P/NZX 50Norway: OBXPoland: WIG20Portugal: PSI 20Singapore: FTSE Straits TimesSouth Africa: FTSE/JSE All-ShareSouth Korea: KOSPISpain: IBEX 35Sweden: OMX Stockholm 30Switzerland: Swiss Market IndexTaiwan: TAIEXThailand: FTSE SETTurkey: BIST 100United Kingdom: FTSE 100United States: Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones Transportation Average, Dow Jones Utility Average, Nasdaq Composite index and the S&P 500 Read more