WEBS

WEBS
World Equity Benchmark Shares (WEBS) are investments that seek to track the performance of specific Morgan Stanley Capital International Indexes (MSCI) for 17 different countries.

WEBS
See: World Equity Benchmark Series
WF
The two-character ISO 3166 country code for WALLIS AND FUTUNA.

WEBS (World Equity Benchmark Shares)
Stock-like trading indexes specific to 17 countries.
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WEBS (World Equity Benchmark Shares): country-specific indexes that trade like stocks. WEBS give investors the opportunity to invest in 17 different foreign countries.

International WEBS: Equity securities that are designed to track the stock market performance of a specific country. In particular, they are designed to emulate the performance of a specific Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) index.

WEBS World Equity Benchmark Shares (q.v.). When Issued Market The market for forthcoming On-the-Run (q.v.) securities. widget A brand of listed security representing a claim against a share or basket of shares.

Founded in 1993 as World Equity Benchmark Shares (WEBS), iShares was a joint venture of Barclays Global Investors and Morgan Stanley. The company was renamed later when other iShares ETFs were released.

Barclays Global Investors, a subsidiary of Barclays plc, entered the fray in 1996 with World Equity Benchmark Shares, or WEBS, subsequently renamed iShares MSCI Index Fund Shares.

See also: Stock, Equity, Securities, Capital, Performance