Wal-Mart Unscathed By Market Fallout

While U.S. financials have underperformed the broader market by 5.3% so far in 2008, the real estate subsector has outperformed it by 11.54%.

And the company that has avoided the credit crisis market fallout most? Wal-Mart Stores (WMT).

Fortune 500’s largest company in the world has seen its share price climb more than 27% year-to-date.

The results come from Dow Jones Indexes, which noted that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped 3021.40 points, or 21.33%, from its record close of 14,164.54 hit on October 9, 2007.