Best And Worst Country ETFs Of 2012

For the first time in years, a U.S. ETF was one of the highest yielding of the year, as Dow Jones US Construction Index Fund (ITB) surged ahead of the pack. While home-building in the United States is the first sign of a recovery in the domestic market, elsewhere in the world there were positive and negative signs for the future. Some countries barely felt the economic crisis that shocked the foundations of the developed world, while others are still trying to regain their footing. In this quickly expanding global economy, countries have to recover fast or get left behind [For updates on all new ETFs, sign up for the free ETFdb newsletter]. Below, we highlight a handful of country-specific ETFs that have surpassed all others since the beginning of 2012 (note that inverse and leveraged ETFs are excluded from this list): Ticker ETF YTD Return TUR MSCI Turkey Investable [...] Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com. Related Posts: Least Correlated Country ETFs To S&P 500 5 Of The Best ETF Performers Of The First Half (Plus The 5 Worst) Emerging Markets ETF Cheat Sheet: Yields, Returns, Fees & More Emerging Market ETFs: Surprising Standouts In A Hectic Month ETFs For The “Next 11″ Economies