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An ETF for exposure to China blue chips – iShares FTSE Xinhua China 25 (FXC)

December 21, 2009 in Charts, China, ETFs, Funds by Roy

The iShares FTSE Xinhua China 25 is an Ireland domiciled ETF that tracks the FTSE Xinhua China 25 index.
The
index consists 25 of the largest and most liquid Chinese stocks (Red Chips and H shares) listed and
trading on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK). The index is specifically designed for international
investors, combining the ease of [...]

An ETF to track global agribusiness – Powershares Global Agriculture (PSGA)

December 21, 2009 in Agriculturals, Charts, ETFs, Funds by Roy

Invesco Powershares Global Agriculture is an ETF domiciled in Ireland with a principal listing on the London stockmarket. As of 17-Dec-09, the fund has delivered almost 70% performance year-to-date in US dollar terms.
The fund replicates the NASDAQ OMX Global Agriculture Index, which track the performance of the largest and most liquid companies engaged in agriculture [...]

Dow Jones World Stock Index – Chart

December 6, 2009 in Charts by Roy

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Click the link below for source.
via $DJW – SharpCharts Workbench : StockCharts.com.

(EEM) iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Chart

December 6, 2009 in Charts, ETFs, Emerging Markets by Roy

The previous post today looked at the underlying index of this ETF – MSCI Emerging Markets index.  The iShares ETF – EEM – tracks the index.  Online charts are more easily found for listed securities than for indices, so let’s look at the MarketWatch chart of EEM.
Of interest is the very strong fall through the [...]

MSCI Emerging Market Index Chart

December 6, 2009 in Charts, Emerging Markets by Roy

The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure equity market performance of emerging markets.
As of June 2009 the MSCI Emerging Markets Index consisted of the following 22 emerging market country indices: Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, [...]

5 Year Gold Price Chart

December 6, 2009 in Charts, Gold by Roy

Five-year chart of gold price (GC.1) to 4-Dec-2009 (from FT.com).   To remind yourself what GC.1 is, read this.
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via FT.com / Markets data / GC.1:CME: Performance for COMEX GOLD 1 FUTURES CHAIN Front Mon.

DJCHINA: The Dow Jones China Broad Index & Chart

October 28, 2009 in Charts, China by Roy

On May 28, 1996, in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow Jones & Company introduced its Dow Jones China Index series. As the first series of indexes developed by a global index provider for Mainland China’s stock markets, the Dow Jones China Indexes are designed to give investors worldwide [...]

Russia Chart – MICEX

October 4, 2009 in Charts, Russia by Roy

The MICEX Index.  NB – currency is RUB.
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via MICEX / Indices & Market Data / Technical analysis.

Russia Chart (RTSI) – Marketwatch

October 4, 2009 in Charts, Russia by Roy

The ten-year chart of RTSI Index.
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via RTSI Index Charts – Russia Index Charts.

Russian RTS Index shows the fastest growth in the world in 2009

October 4, 2009 in Charts, Russia by Roy

September 30th 2009. The RTS Index, the leading benchmark of the Russian stock market, has doubled in value since the beginning of the year, making it the best performing major world index for the 9 months of 2009, according to MarketWatch, part of The Wall Street Digital Network.
On Tuesday, September 29, 2009 the RTS Index [...]

Long Term Currency Charts

October 4, 2009 in Charts, Currencies by Roy

You can easily get long term charts of various currency exchange rates from Livecharts.
To go straight to the charts, click these:
GBPUSD (how many dollars in a pound)
EURUSD (how many dollars in a euro)
EURGBP (how many pounds in a euro)

The Price Of Gold

October 4, 2009 in Charts, Gold by Roy

Gold Futures Contracts
Like all physical commodities, the ‘price’ of gold must take into account the when and where delivery is required.  The price of a contract to deliver 1000 ounces of gold tomorrow will be different to the price to deliver it in a month, or two months.
For example COMEX (part of the CME Group [...]

Brazil Chart – Yahoo! Finance

September 27, 2009 in Charts by Roy

Current 5-year chart for Brazil IBOVESPA – (Sao Paolo) – with 100-day and 200-day moving averages.
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China Chart – Yahoo! Finance

September 27, 2009 in Charts, China by Roy

Update on chart for SSE Composite Index (Shanghai), with 100-day and 200-day moving averages.
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India Chart – Yahoo! Finance

September 27, 2009 in Charts, India by Roy

Chart update – 10 years BSE SENSEX – with 100-day and 200-day moving averages.
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