Global bargain hunt: What are the world's five cheapest stockmarkets?

Regions offering best value

Investment Week
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Stockmarkets have sold off heavily in 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic depresses sentiment for risk assets and lockdown measures suppress earnings potential.

Stockmarkets have sold off heavily in 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic depresses sentiment for risk assets and lockdown measures suppress earnings potential. However, for those positive on stocks, Investment Week outlines the cheapest stockmarkets of offer, using Barclays Historic CAPE Ratio indices, designed by the firm in conjunction with economist Professor Robert Shiller. The indices track 26 global equity markets' cyclically adjusted price to earnings ratio (CAPE), which is determined by taking an inflation-adjusted price index of an equity benchmark and dividing it by the moving a...

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