India, July 6 -- A decade is long enough to see which market really delivers. Comparing the Nasdaq Composite and the Nifty 50 over the last 10 years shows a clear winner. Both indices have made money for long-term investors, but the US benchmark has pulled far ahead of India's blue-chip index. This article looks at how each index got here, what drove the gap, and why things like currency and dividends matter when comparing the two.

Two Benchmarks, Two Different Economies The Nasdaq Composite and the Nifty 50 serve as nicknames for the "Top US stocks" and "top Indian equities" in turn, but both of these indices have quite different compositions. The Nasdaq Composite monitors over 3,000 firms traded on the Nasdaq exchange, the composition...