The United Kingdom, with the fifth-largest market cap today, is up only 36 percent since France number 7 has risen 46 percent.

Slow economic growth, EU sclerosis, and endless union and currency troubles have crippled European markets. The real story here is China and, to a lesser degree, India. In just 13 years, China has passed every country in Europe and Japan for total market cap. India has also been rocketing up the rankings. The exception to this in Asia is Japan. Its share of global market cap has dropped more than 3 percentage points over the past 13 years.

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Japan has some major fundamental problems with its economy that will keep its market from growing much for years to come and that may be spreading to the rest of the world. Despite the increase in its total market capitalisation, the relative size of American stock markets has fallen sharply. But it now has In , even tiny Switzerland and sparsely populated Canada had larger stock markets than China. And India is coming on strong. The centre of economic and market gravity has long been shifting east.

Though western economies still pull the most weight, their relative size is shrinking.

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And this is most visible where investors vote with their feet or, as it happens, with their clicking pointer fingers every day: Europe is in decline. Read the original article on Stansberry Churchouse Research. This is a guest post by Stansberry Churchouse Research , an independent investment research company based in Singapore and Hong Kong that delivers investment insight on Asia and around the world.

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Truewealth Publishing The real story here is China and, to a lesser degree, India. Truewealth Publishing Despite the increase in its total market capitalisation, the relative size of American stock markets has fallen sharply. What this tells us The centre of economic and market gravity has long been shifting east.

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