Therefore, first place is taken by the stock market in Caracas, Venezuela, whose main index, Caracas General, marked a gain of 285.6% during the period 1 January to 23 September 2013.Caracas General Index tracks the evolution of stock market of the most liquid and capitalized companies listed on the Venezuelan stock market. Of course, the gain may not seem so great when considering the inflation of 45.4% in this country and 47% depreciation of the national currency – bolivar against the U.S. dollar – recorded since the beginning of the year. But even subtracting these elements remains a nice profit for investors on Venezuela stock market.
Second place among stock markets with the highest yields brought to the investors is occupied by the stock market from Argentina, whose main index, Merval, recorded a plus of 72.33% since the beginning of the year. Inflation in Argentina is around 10% and the depreciation of the peso against the U.S. dollar was 17% from the beginning of the year. Therefore, it remains to be considered a plus for investors on the stock market in Buenos Aires.
Third place in this top is held by Karachi, Pakistan stock market, whose main index KSE All Shares has generated for investors a gain of 46.01% from the beginning the year. From short range on forth place is Japanese stock market with a plus of 43.16% for investors who have watched the structure of Nikkei 225 index.
5th place in this ranking of the most performing stock markets this year is held by a stock in Europe namely Swiss stock market. Swiss Market Index registered a growth of 20.82%.
Locally, the Romanian stock market also registered a considerable advance for investors, the index BET increasing by 15.18% since the beginning of the year.
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