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Why your portfolio should be stocked with global shares

LOST AMID ALL THE TALK OF THE “TRUMP bump” on Wall Street is the fact that U.S. equities, while up, have actually been among the worst performers in the world this year. Stock markets in Mexico, China, Spain, France, Brazil, South Korea, Singapore, Poland, India and Turkey have not only outpaced the S&P 500 U.S. index so far in 2017, they’ve more than doubled the gains of domestic shares.

Setting the politics of globalization aside, the resurgence of foreign equities,

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