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Below we highlight the year-to-date performance of the 25 largest stocks in Bloomberg's World index. As shown, the top 5 companies are still based in the US. Only 3 out of the top 25 are up year to date -- Wal-Mart (WMT), Volkswagen (VLKAY.PK), and Wells Fargo (WFC). Volkswagen is by far the best performing large cap stock year to date with a gain of 157%.
General Electric (GE) is the worst performing US stock on the list, and it has fallen from the 2nd largest company to the 4th largest company this year behind MSFT and WMT. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China is the worst performing global stock on the list with a decline of 50.8% year to date, followed by China Mobile (CHL) and then GE.
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We also ran a screen on the 500 largest companies in the world to see which ones are up the most year to date. Unfortunately, the list returned very few results. Currently there are just 26 stocks out of the largest 500 in the world that are up on the year! We list the proud few below.
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We note with interest that Warren Buffet made money buying Wells Fargo recently. Also he is NOW moving into stocks with his personal money [separate from Bershire ] because he follows the motto "buy when there is great fear".
It must be noted Warren is talking about a time frame of 5 yrs to 20 yrs and superior stock picking skills, plenty of spare cash. So unless we are on the same wavelength as Warren, we have to devise our own strategies for surviving this market first.
Daniel Kowkabany