11.03.2014 - Asset class performance during the current bull market
Last week we posted a number of charts to note the 5-year anniversary of the current bull market for stocks. Below we take a further look at asset-class performance during the current bull market using our key ETF matrix, which regular readers have seen here a number of times. In the matrix, we highlight each ETF's performance over the last week, year-to-date, and since the close on 3/9/09, which was the bear-market low for stocks during the Financial Crisis. As you can see, US equity ETFs have posted the largest gains since March 9th, 2009. The Consumer Discretionary ETF (XLY) is up the most of any ETF in our matrix with a 5-year gain of 318%...............................................Full Article: Source
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