Another one of those financial acronyms, pronounced EEE- fee. The EAFE (the letters stand for Europe, Australasia, Far East) is a stock index that covers the major markets of the industrialized world, excluding the US and Canada; think of it as the S&P for the rest of the world. And while we’re on foreign stock indices, let’s mention the MSCI Emerging Market Index, which covers emerging markets like China, India, Brazil and the like. Some other country- specific foreign indices you might hear mentioned on the news include the TSX (Canada), DAX (Germany), CAC 40 (France), FTSE 100 (or “Footsie,” Great Britain), Nikkei (Japan), Shanghai (China, obviously), and the Hang Seng (Hong Kong).
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