Countries with Economic Freedom – October 2013 Performance

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Freedom Perf Oct 2013

The countries high in economic freedom (other than the United States which is also high in economic freedom) beat the MSCI EAFE Index by 0.17% during the month of October.

The EAFE Index was boosted by some of the countries in Northern Europe which appreciated an average 4.15%, and pulled down by Japan which lost 0.08%.

Australia had the highest performance among these countries with a 5.53% return beating even the returns of iShares Emerging Market Index ETF (EEM) at 4.84%.

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