This Country's Stock Market Cannot Be Ignored

U.S. stocks are doing relatively well as of September 4, up by 10.6% year to date. That's right in line with the average annual gain of about 10% for the S&P 500 index since that benchmark's 1957 inception.That's not bad at all, considering that the index posted robust gains of more than 23% both last year and the year before. But this year, another nation's stock market is outperforming the American market... by a lot.I'm talking about Germany. The DAX index, the benchmark and barometer for that nation's economy that tracks 40 German blue-chip companies trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (analogous to the all-American S&P 500), is up about 17% this year, almost twice the gain of the S&P 500. And the broader MSCI Germany index, which tracks 54 large and mid-cap stocks, is up about 35% in 2025.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool