We're still on top.. even though Europe's stock market is higher cap now..

[brxndxn]

I just read an article...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/bf6a00e4-e14b-1...0d4e4-6714-11da-a650-0000779e2340.html

It says Europe's (including Russia) stock market cap is higher than the US which shows an end to US' dominance.. Though.. the US is ONE country and Europe is like... a lot.

But, I was thinking... a LOT of US corporations lately have been taken over by private investment groups. Wonder if that's figured in...

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: brxndxn
But, I was thinking... a LOT of US corporations lately have been taken over by private investment groups. Wonder if that's figured in...

No its not.

 

[darkxshade]

"Europe?s 24 stockmarkets, including Russia and emerging Europe, saw their capitalisation rise to $15,720bn (?11,819bn) at the end of last week, according to Thomson Financial data. That exceeded the $15,640bn market value of the US."


Europe does not have a stock market, there are many... and it took 24 to top US.

 

[Martin]

Its rather simple, they have more people so as they grow richer their combined GDP/market cap/whatever-financial-indicator-you-want will obviously exceed that of the US.

 

[novasatori]

I thought the United States was also seeing an increase in privatization due to cost of compliance.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: novasatori
I thought the United States was also seeing an increase in privatization due to cost of compliance.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

:thumbsdown:

 

[novasatori]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: novasatori
I thought the United States was also seeing an increase in privatization due to cost of compliance.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Sarbanes-Oxley Act

:thumbsdown:

yea, exactly

so wouldn't that make it even more pronounced

less IPOs so slower public capital growth in that respect, but also more firms going private so also decrease in preexisting public firms as well.

this leads to a larger growing private market, and slowing public capital growth.

of course I don't study the markets much, but this is basically what I would deduce.
Maybe someone has more info about public capital/private market growth for EU/USA? I don't really know where to find much about financial market info.

 

[imported_Lothar]

VEURX FTW!!! :thumbsup:

I put 50% of my mom's foreign investment in that index fund alone last year.