A Quick Quiz for You

With the U.S. and foreign markets in an upswing, I have a quick quiz for you that can lead to some very interesting opportunities.

There are no right or wrong answers. Just go to my blog and give me your best guesses:

Question #1. Which MAJOR national economy do you think will enjoy the best GDP growth for the next 12 months?

Question #2. Which one do you think will suffer the weakest growth (or biggest decline) in the next 12 months?

Question #3. The chart to the right shows the net change in three country ETFs since the beginning of the year. Each one is linked to the major stock market index of a single country.

As you can see,

• The country ETF represented by the green line is up 65 percent;

• The one represented by the red line is up 40 percent; and

• The black one is up only 3 percent.

Care to guess what countries they are?

Question #4. Which would you prefer to invest in? A country where the market has had the best performance so far this year? Or one which may be lagging but can be bought more cheaply?

I’d be very interested in your answers. And my team of international experts and I are anxious to share ours as well.

So here’s what to do …

First, register to attend our Weiss Global Forum on August 13. It’s just eight days away. So I suggest you do so promptly by clicking here.

Second, hop on my blog — not only to take a crack at some of the quiz questions, but also to ask any questions of your own which you’d like us to address at our forum next week. I can’t guarantee we’ll answer them all. But we’ll cover as many as we can.

The First-Ever Weiss Global Forum

This will be the first-ever Weiss Global Forum, bringing together our top experts for an international video conference.

Our mission: To explore with you a wide range of new global profit opportunities (and pitfalls) for the balance of 2009 and beyond.

It will be a monumental 1-hour video event — all with no commercial interruptions or promotions of any kind.

It is absolutely free with no strings attached — our gift to make sure you get candid, unhedged answers to the most crucial questions you have about your investments right now.

This briefing is so crucial to your investment success in the months ahead, I’m hosting it myself, from my headquarters here in Jupiter, Florida.

• I’ll ask Mike Larson, our real estate and banking specialist, whether or not the U.S. housing disaster is over or not.

• Claus Vogt of the Million-Dollar Contrarian Portfolio will join us via live video feed from Berlin to give us the view from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia.

• Larry Edelson will be online from his office in Bangkok to give us his boots-on-the-ground analysis of the sudden economic explosion in China and its impact on natural resource markets. Plus …

• Tony Sagami, editor of our Asia Stock Alert, will identify specific stock opportunities he’s seeing right now in China and the rest of Asia.

The Weiss Global Forum is absolutely free. We do ask, however that you register so we can make sure you receive your instructions for attending prior to the briefing.

Just click this link. We’ll reserve your place for you, and I will immediately send you an email with your login instructions.

Plus, after you register, please hop on my blog to give me your quiz answers, comments and questions.

Good luck and God bless!

Martin

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