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Here are the countries with the best performing stock markets
year by year, from 2016 to 2019, along with the returns for the
U.S. stock market:
Growth Through Global Investing
Annual returns of top-performing developed global stock markets
Greece 44% New Zealand 39% Ireland 38% Switzerland 34% United States 31%
2019
Finland -2% New Zealand -3% United States -4% Norway -8% United States -4%
2018
Austria 59% Hong Kong 36% Singapore 36% Denmark 36%
United States 22%
2017
Canada 25% New Zealand 19% Norway 15% United States 12% United States 12%
2016
SOURCE: Morningstar, 2020
Many of the World’s Best-known Brands Are
Owned by Companies Outside the United States
Many people in St. Louis, Missouri, the city where I grew up, and
probably people across the country, were in complete shock
on July 13, 2008, when the Brazilian- Belgian company InBev
announced that it had purchased St. Louis-based Anheuser
Busch Brewing Company. There was a palpable feeling of
Chapter 3: You Must Have Growth In Your Portfolio
