U.S. common stocks convincingly outperformed Treasury bonds by 14 percentage points in 2012, and are still advancing on balance as the yield on the 10 year Treasury has risen to 1.92%.
Be advised that the best performing group in the U.S. last year the real estate investment trusts that gained over 20% while the broad market indexes were a tad below 20%. Only Chinese equities– in a slump since 2007, acted better, coming from a lower base, after the U.S. REIT performance………………………………………..Full Article: Source