Markets go thru many phases of bull and bear markets over decades. Though bear markets are difficult to handle, bull markets tend to be longer. For example, from 1980 to 2024 global stocks as represented by the MSCI World Index had bull markets whose duration were four times that of bear markets. In addition, the …
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In earlier posts we looked at the return charts for emerging markets, developed markets and the S&P 500 for 2024. In this post, let’s review the annual returns chart for asset classes from 2010 to 2024. Last year, large caps were the top performers while the worst performer was high yield bonds with a return …
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Emerging Markets Returns by Country for the period from 2010 to 2024 was recently published by Novel Investor. Taiwan was the best performer last year due to the strong performance of the semiconductor sector. The Taiwanese market is dominated by the semiconductor sector and especially chip-maker Taiwan Semiconductor Co (TSM). Former BRICS champion, Brazil was …
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The S&P Sector Performance chart for the year 2024 was published by Novel Investor a few weeks ago. This chart shows the annual total returns of the various sectors in the S&P 500 index from 2010 to 2024. For the second year in a row, the tech sector was the best performer and the worst …
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The Periodic Table of Commodities Returns chart for 2024 was published by U.S. Global Investors recently. This handy one-pager provides an overview of the returns of various commodities over the year. In 2024, the best performing commodity was Gold with a return of over 26%. This is the second year in a row that the …
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