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title: "March Country Rankings"
url: https://accuvestblog.com/2017/03/10/march-country-rankings-2/
description: "Global equities continued to surge higher in February, with the MSCI ACWI up 2.81%. The average country was up 2.04%, and the range of returns for February, between."
published: 2017-03-10
updated: 2017-03-10
---

# March Country Rankings

Published 2017-03-10

March 10, 2017 · by [Dustin Blodgett](https://accuvestblog.com/author/agadustinblodgett/) · Filed under [Portfolio Notes](https://accuvestblog.com/category/portfolio-notes/)

Issue attachment (not archived)Country Portfolio Notes March 2017country-portfolio-notes-march-2017.pdf

- Global equities continued to surge higher in February, with the MSCI ACWI up 2.81%. The average country was up 2.04%, and the range of returns for February, between countries, was 8.50%.
- The United States was up 3.86%, Japan was up 1.12%, and Europe as a whole was up 1.19%. Europe was again, the worst performing region during the month. EM was the best, up 8.70% YTD.
- Israel surged to the top of the rankings and is now ranked #2 overall. Israel has the best Fundamentals, led by the fastest growth in PMI (7.40% vs a country avg. of 1.1%). It also has 17.1% earnings growth compared to a country avg. of 11.2%.