Country Stock Market Performance Year-to-Date

Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit: Below we provide the year-to-date returns for a number of international equity indices measured in both local currency and US dollars. If the performance in dollars is less than the performance in local currency, the dollar is up against its local currency for the year, and vice versa.

Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit: Worries about a few EU countries and the Euro currency have rattled global equity markets. Sovereign debt credit default swaps have been rising sharply for countries such as Greece and Portugal in recent days. Equity markets in Spain, Portugal, and Hungary are down more than 5% today alone.

Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit: A lot has been made of strong stock market returns around the world so far this year, but adjusting for currency moves, the returns look a little less flattering. The U.S. dollar is up nearly 4% year to date, while currencies like the Japanese yen, the British pound and the euro are all down.

Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit: The average year-to-date stock market performance of the 81 countries listed below is 1.33%. (For each country we use its most widely followed index.) So far, a lot of the countries that struggled in 2010 are on the leaderboard in 2011.

Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit: Global markets have staged a remarkable rally over the first four trading days of the week. Below we highlight the performance of the major equity market indices for 78 countries around the world both year to date and this week.

Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit: Below we highlight the performance (YTD and since 4/23) of the major equity indices for 80 countries around the world in local currencies. The list is sorted by performance since April 23rd, when US markets hit their bull market peaks.

Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit: For those interested, below we highlight the recent performance of key ETFs across all asset classes. For each ETF, we provide its performance over the last week, so far in March, and year to date.

Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit: Below we highlight the year to date performance of the major equity market indices for 78 countries. The average country on the list is now down 14.15% year to date. This makes the S&P 500's year to date decline of 3.02% look pretty impressive. The US is currently the 13th best performing country on the list.