The current yield on the U.S. 10 year Treasury note is 1.96%. In the past five years, the yield has dropped from about 4% to about 2% recently. In the past, U.S. Treasuries have yielded excellent cumulative returns during certain periods. The following chart shows the historical yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury from 1954 thru …
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The following chart shows the extraction cost of oil by various methods: Click to enlarge Source: CIO View Special, Feb 2015, Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Middle East oil the cheapest while production in the Arctic Ocean is the most expensive. Update (12/22/15): Source: Oil and gas companies: the carbon risk, Schroders
International equities are leading U.S. stocks this year. For example, developed European markets are well ahead of American stocks at least so far this year. The year-to-date returns of some of the major equity markets are listed below: S&P 500 Index: 2.39% Canada’s S & P/TSX Composite: 2.1% UK’s FTSE 100: 7.0% France’s CAC 40: …
Emerging markets have been laggards in the past few years compared to their developed world peers. Among the developed stocks, U.S. stocks especially had a superb run last year compared to European stocks. However this year, the tables seem to have turned with European stocks outperforming American stocks so far. With the poor performance of emerging stocks …
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The FTSE 100 Index closed at 7,022 yesterday. It has taken UK’s benchmark index to cross the 7,000 level. Almost 17 years ago the FTSE first reached 6,000. Though the index has reached a milestone, the performance is not that great compared to the S&P 500. U.S. stock have outperformed the FTSE 100 by a wide margin in …
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