The chart below shows the current dividend yields in some of the major equity markets: Click to Enlarge Source: FT Market Data Among the developed markets, except Japan the U.S. has the lowest yield at 2.5% for the S&P 500. Spain is one of the worst performing markets in the first five months of this …
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Interesting chart showing the U.S. Federal Budget/Deficit as a percentage of GDP and how it relates to average deficit of Greece: Source: pionline.com
The chart below shows the dividend yield across twenty country indices.These countries represent the largest countries based on market capitalization as of 12/31/2009: Click to Enlarge Source: Skloff Financial Group The dividend yield of U.S. stocks remained less than a paltry 2% since 2003. For the years shown, Australian stocks have consistently paid dividends in …
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Callan Associates has published The Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns for 2009. Chart Click to Enlarge Some of the key observations from this chart include: Global stocks rallied about 32% in 2009 while US S&P 500 climbed 26.5% Small caps outperformed large caps for the ninth year out of the past 11 years Fixed …
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I came across two charts that show the dismal performance of U.S. equities in this decade. The first chart below is from the Numbers column in the latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek. It shows the return of U.S. S&P 500 Index from Dec 31, 2009 thru Dec 14, 2009. The S&P 500 lost 23% in …