MSCI World Index

MSCI World Index definition - finance
The Morgan Stanley Capital International World Index, a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure developed-market equity performance throughout the world. As of April 2, 2002, the 23 developed-market country indices included: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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