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World's 20 best performing stock markets

Last updated on: May 3, 2013 06:05 IST
Pedestrians holding umbrellas stand in front of a stock index board showing various stock prices outside a brokerage in Tokyo.

Amid the volatile markets across the world, these 20 stock markets delivered good returns in 2013, according to CNN Money.

Take a look at the world's 20 best stock markets...

Japan 

Rank: 1


Year-to-date gain: 34%

Benchmark index year-to-date performance as of April 24, 2013


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Investors view stock exchange information at the Dubai Financial Market.

United Arab Emirates                             

Rank: 2

Year-to-date gain: 28%

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A money exchange in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Argentina                                                

Rank: 3

Year-to-date gain: 27%

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Kuwait Stock Exchange.

Kuwait                                                    


Rank: 4

Year-to-date gain: 23%

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A trader at the Philippines stock exchange as business is halted.

Philippines

Rank: 5

Year-to-date gain: 20%

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Brokers work on the trading floor of the Nigerian stock exchange in the commercial capital Lagos.


Rank: 6


Year-to-date gain: 19%

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Taxi drivers waited for customers in the diamond mining town of Letlhakane, Botswana.

Botswana

Rank: 7

Year-to-date gain: 16%

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A display at the Zurich stock exchange.

Switzerland

Rank: 8                                           

Year-to-date gain: 16%

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Traders stand near a screen showing the Indonesia Stock Exchange Composite Index during the first day of trading in Jakarta.

Indonesia

Rank: 9

Year-to-date gain: 16%

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Cooperative Bank's treasurer Caroline Mugadi works in the trading room in Kenya's capital Nairobi.

Kenya

Rank: 10

Year-to-date gain: 15%

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Employees work on an assembly line at a shoe factory in Tan Lap village, outside Hanoi.

Vietnam

Rank: 11

Year-to-date gain: 15%

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Ireland

Rank: 12

Year-to-date gain: 15%

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Bulgaria Stock Exchange.

Bulgaria

Rank: 13

Year-to-date gain: 15%

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Icelandic stock exchange in Reikjavik.

Iceland

Rank: 14

Year-to-date gain: 14%

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An investor sits in front of an electronic board displaying live market data at a stockbroker's office in central Bangkok.

Thailand

Rank: 15

Year-to-date gain: 13%

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Dagmar Kleinert, manager of OMX Tallinn Stock Exchange works in office in Tallinn.

Estonia

Rank: 16

Year-to-date gain: 13%

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Luka Brajdica, Rijeka.

Croatia                                                     

Rank: 17

Year-to-date gain: 12%

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Karachi Stock Exchange.

Pakistan

Rank: 18

Year-to-date gain: 12%

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New Zealand

Rank: 19

Year-to-date gain: 12%

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Traders work at the post that trades H.J. Heinz Co. on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

United States

Rank: 20

Year-to-date gain: 11%