Investments, tenth edition

  Foreign and International Stock Market Indexes 

 Development in financial markets worldwide includes the construction of indexes for these 

markets. Among these are the Nikkei (Japan), FTSE (U.K.; pronounced “footsie”), DAX 

(Germany), Hang Seng (Hong Kong), and TSX (Canada). 

 A leader in the construction of international indexes has been MSCI (Morgan Stanley 

Capital International), which computes over 50 country indexes and several regional 

indexes.  Table 2.6  presents many of the indexes computed by MSCI.   

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 Introduction