We continue to focus on year-to-date (YTD) breakeven levels as potential areas of support.
Still, majors like Gazprom are beating the local index, up 3.3% YTD ending June 2.
The Market Vectors Indonesia (IDX) fund is up 13.3% YTD and 8.3% over the last month.
We have beaten the market by 8% YTD while maintaining a beta of around 0.8.
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The Market Vectors Russia (RSX) exchange traded fund is up 14% YTD as of Jan. 27 intraday.
As of July 6, PowerShares Global Clean Energy Portfolio ( PBD) had been down nearly 29% YTD.
This is probably why over the past year, GRMN has lost almost 30% of its value, including 17% YTD.
Consider focusing on the YTD performance category as an initial reference point to identify underperforming asset classes for now.
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The Market Vectors Russia (RSX) ETF is down over 17% YTD while the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM) ETF is down 14%.
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The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) is also 1.9% higher YTD.
Property sales improved further to 6.6% y-o-y ytd from 3.3% (Figure 3).
For example, for YTD return, I found the return for all stocks.
As is this stock chart, with Salesforce.com shares up 55% YTD.
The fund has outperformed Vale shares YTD, but slightly underperformed Petrobras.
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Two of the biggest surprises this year have come out of the Chinese Internet sector: SINA (SINA) and Baidu (BIDU), up 78% and 47% YTD respectively.
Ironically, despite the notion that China was a runaway train, the iShares FTSE Xinhua only recently started posting gains and is up a modest 0.5% YTD.
The iShares MSCI Brazil (EWZ) exchange traded fund is only up 9.85% YTD compared with the 10.75% gain in the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM) ETF.
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As the chart below indicates, through September 30, 2012, although North America registered some impressive returns year-to-date (YTD), they were bested by several other international regions.
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There were big declines in existing home sales (now down 12.9% YTD), and home prices, while consumer spending rose in April by the smallest amount in 3 months.
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Paul McWilliams' Next Inning Technology Research is up 53% YTD.
Moreover, we find it quite interesting that the popular 200-day moving averages for each of the major domestic benchmarks that we follow are sitting around these respective YTD breakeven points.
The stock, at 337 yen, was up 5% today, but it has been trending down after spiking to 405 on April 15 after hitting a YTD low of 234 on April 3.
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Small caps and growth stocks are outperforming and small cap growth itself has been the superstar thus far in 2011 (up 5.13% YTD versus, say, large cap value up 3.38% thus far this year).
The Calculation: To quantify the data, I measured each of those four statistics (YTD return, number of up days, standard deviation, and maximum drawdown) against all other stocks and gave them a score from zero to 100.
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