According to data collected by DailyFinance (as of Dec 24.) the Philippines had the best-performing equity market in the world providing investors with a 58% return.
The winners followed the 2010 trends: China and rising commodity, specifically metals, prices.
Full story from DailyFinance here. [Chart via The Business Insider]
Data from economist Angus Maddison suggest that China and India were the biggest economies in the world for almost all of the past 2000 years. Why they fell so far behind may be more of a mystery than why they are currently flourishing.
Full story from The Economist here and the rest of the magazines cavalcade of the hottest charts of 2010: a year in nine pictures here.
Reason.tv’s ten most-viewed videos released in 2010 are located here.
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