Foreign iShares Outperform U.S.

Eddy Elfenbein submits: Here's an update of a chart I ran a few months ago. This is how several foreign iShares have performed since the beginning of 2003:

Brazil (EWZ)................................414.99%
Austria (EWO).............................267.78%
Mexico (EWW).............................261.76%
Sweden (EWD)............................198.24%
Belgium (EWK).............................168.89%
Spain (EWP).................................166.29%
Australia (EWA)...........................162.52%
Canada (EWC)..............................160.92%
South Korea (EWY)......................155.33%
Germany (EWG)...........................148.22%
Italy (EWI)...................................128.20%
France (EWQ)..............................118.44%
Hong Kong (EWH)........................107.14%
Switzerland (EWL).......................103.75%
Netherlands (EWN)........................99.92%
U.K. (EWU).....................................97.64%
Japan (EWJ)...................................94.92%
Malaysia (EWM)..............................68.93%
Taiwan (EWT).................................59.07%

By comparison, the U.S. market as measured by the S&P 500 Spiders ETF (SPY), is up 59.04%.