Best and Worst Countries to Invest in

Which are the best and worst countries to invest in? Which countries provide the most investment friendly environment? Or which countries are the riskiest to invest in? All these questions have been answered in a report released recently. A report developed by world's leading credit default swap pricing service, CMA of London, ranked the world's nations in its report, 'Sovereign Risk Report for Q4 2010'.

Sovereign risk is determined as a risk that a nation or organization - backed by the credit of the government will default on its loan or does not succeed to honor other business commitments due to a change in national policy.

According to these criteria, this is the list of top 10 countries to invest in:

1. Norway

2. Finland

3. Sweden

4. Switzerland

5. The United States of America

6. Hong Kong

7. Denmark

8. Australia

9. Germany

10. Saudi Arabia

Worst Countries to invest in:

1. Greece

2. Venezuela

3. Ireland

4. Portugal

5. Argentina

6. Ukraine

7. Spain

8. Dubai

9. Hungary

10. Iraq