Chart of the Week: Performance by Country, YTD

In this week’s chart of the week, I wish simply to make two points:

1. If you are focusing your investments in U.S. stocks, you are likely underperforming 80% of the global investment world so far in 2009
2. FINVIZ.com has some excellent summary graphics for geographical and sector/industry group performance and other metrics

The chart below is one such example.

The quick takeaway? Get global!

For some related posts, try:

• Chart of the Week: Breaking Down the S&P 500 Index in Q2
• Equities or Commodities?
• Short Covering Driving Today’s Gains

[souce: FINVIZ.com]

Comments

[babajay:]

Not sure this is a comprehensive list. Are we to assume all markets are up this year..? or are you showing us only markets that are up this year..?

Sep 21 06:11 AM

[RCV:]

Are the figures all in USD terms?

I can't seem to reconcile the numbers. For example, the Spanish Stock Market (IBEX) is up 28% YTD in Euro terms (11,777 on 18th Sep vs 9195 on 30th Dec), and up 34% in USD terms (€/$ at 1.4707 on 18th Sep vs 1.3980 on 31st Dec); so where are they getting 49.4% for Spain?

Sep 21 08:17 AM

[Avril:]

The chart above is produced with selection group of 'Country (U.S. listed stocks only)'. If calculating only with stocks from a particular country that are listed in the U.S. as well, it is not very useful for different markets comparison as intended.

On Sep 21 08:17 AM RCV wrote:

> Are the figures all in USD terms?
>
> I can't seem to reconcile the numbers. For example, the Spanish Stock
> Market (seekingalpha.com/symbo...) is up 28% YTD in Euro
> terms (11,777 on 18th Sep vs 9195 on 30th Dec), and up 34% in USD
> terms (€/$ at 1.4707 on 18th Sep vs 1.3980 on 31st Dec); so where
> are they getting 49.4% for Spain?

Sep 23 05:28 AM