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Seattle, Washington-based Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. (EXPD) is a leading third-party logistics provider. With a market cap of $16.3 billion, Expeditors offers global logistics ...
What accounts for the performance divergence between US and international dividend stocks? For one thing, notice in the exhibit above that equity market returns have been much more subdued outside ...
Vanguard Total International Stock ETF: Performance Highlights. Much of this fund’s category-relative edge traces back to its low fee.
The Vanguard Total International Stock Market ETF offers broad exposure to international markets. However, the VXUS ETF's performance has been awful over the last decade. History shows there's not ...
International stocks offer some diversification and minimize geographic risk, but holding on to a bunch of domestic and international stocks can be overwhelming. It's difficult enough to monitor ...
The chart below shows U.S. and international stock performance over the past five decades. For those who want even longer-term data, this paper covers global stock returns since 1921.
Owning international stocks—the shares of companies located outside your home country—can help diversify your portfolios, hedge against risk and tap into growth in economies beyond your own.
Emerging market stocks—i.e. the MSCI Emerging Markets Index—returned a whopping 37.8% in 2017, while developed market international stocks—i.e. the MSCI EAFE Index (which measures the equity ...
The S&P 500® Index is a market-capitalization-weighted index of 500 common stocks chosen for market size, liquidity, and industry group representation to represent U.S. equity performance.
For the sake of comparison, I tracked performance of two ETFs: One tracking the S&P 500 performance (IVV) IVV, and the other tracking the MSCI Total International Stock index (IXUS) IXUS, which ...