2010 for the world”s stock markets began on a positive note, but closer to the middle of the month upward trend began to stumble, and then completely switched to a massive sale, with the MSCI World global indicator dropped to 2-month low. Although the favorable macroeconomic news in the course of the month continued to appear (in particular, on the U.S. economy), at some point markets seized the “China syndrome” - fears that China may resort to restrictive measures to avoid bubbles and overheating economy. It was then that investors are-bull, and lay their hands on the accumulated, hoping some time to re-enter the market at the local minima, and the more profit - the greater the desire to have time to fix it, so the most profitable markets last year were now among the main “losers”.

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ETF (Exchange Traded Fund), or an index fund is a financial instrument whose price reflects the value of a stock index, the exchange of goods , currency or index is formed by the issuer”s portfolio.

According to ETF Digest.com, currently there are over 700 different ETF in the U.S., and their number continues to grow. Now you can meet ETF, belonging to different segments of the financial market: the market shares, bonds, commodities (Commodities) and currency. The following table reflects the profitability of the major ETF with the beginning of 2010:

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Source - Reuters (data as of the beginning February)

note that in the new year, we have included in our rating a number of new funds, including those linked to emerging growth markets - Peru, Indonesia and Vietnam.

In January in our rating percentage of funds with positive returns amounted to only about 12%, while loss-making tools with losses of more than 5% was more than half. At the same time last year”s growth leader, a fund linked to Russia”s market is only a slight loss, but a group of Latin American funds bindings, all year long stay in good yield, was now the greatest losses - more than 10%. Brazilian ETF for the monf3eth dipped right on to 13,3% of the pressure of rumors about China and its future deterrent measures. By the way, the tools with links to the Chinese market, too, were at the tail end of our ranking with the loss of 8-9%.

Among the leaders in profitability was to fund the Japanese yen, which could grow on fears about China.

Turkish stock market was one of the few that have retained the leading position in our ranking of profitability. Growth has contributed to news about the increasing rate of the Turkish state bonds by the rating agency Moody”s. Chile Fund in the past month rolled away from historic highs, but resist the temptation to win.

Following a month of early to judge whether there had been a clear trend in the market for the sale of assets in emerging markets. Rather, investors have small local mining on the most promising assets, to create preconditions for further growth. However, fans of “kitaezavisimyh” assets now have a little poosterechsya to avoid the big sale, like January.

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