Saturday, January 25, 2014

Where We Is: Recent Asset Class Performance

Yesterday we saw that the marijuana field (sorry) was the most lucrative for the preceeding trading week. Here's the roundup of the rest of the gang. From Bespoke Investment Group:

Recent Asset Class Performance
Below is a look at the recent performance of various asset classes using US-traded ETFs.  After a rough week for stocks, the S&P 500-tracking SPY ETF is now down 3.14% year-to-date.  The Dow 30 (DIA) is down even more at -4.22%, but the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ), smallcaps (IJR) and midcaps (IJH) are down less than 3%.
On the sector level, Materials (XLB), Financials (XLF) and Industrials (XLI) got hit the hardest this week, while Utilities (XLU) was down the least.  There was a real bloodbath overseas as many of the country ETFs shown were down 4-5%....MORE