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And The Best Performing Stock Market In The World This Year Is

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"Isolated, sanctioned, oil-crushed, 'economy is dying', warmonger" Russia...

 

Of the 93 major equity indices in the world, Russia is the best performer (in USD terms) - up 13.36% YTD (followed by oil-crushed Saudi Arabia)...

 

The S&P 500 is 48th on the list... (just behind Kuwait and just ahead of Greece)

 

Source: Bloomberg

 

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Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:00 | 5781829 knukles
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Booyah!

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:18 | 5781928 TheCanadianAustrian
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Aren't all stocks priced in their respective currencies? If so, it's a meaningless chart.

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:31 | 5781998 cigarEngineer
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It says "in USD terms".

However, I don't see how S&P is negative YTD. Didn't we have all time highs today? Something's wrong here

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:48 | 5782099 FlyinHigh
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Somewhere I read that "Good was Bad & Bad was Good".

Maybe this chart was part of that ?

Maybe ?

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 16:27 | 5782291 cheech_wizard
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As of today...

http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/SPX:IND

speaking strictly YTD...  +1.83%

http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/RTSI$:IND

strictly speaking YTD... +15.61%

My guess is these numbers are dated about a week or two ago.

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:33 | 5782011 mattgallis
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 Russian stocks are down nearly 40% since last May...

ZH suffers from 'selective reasoning'

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=rts.rs#%7B%22range%22%3A%221y%22%2C%2...

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 16:05 | 5782191 englishvinal
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mattgallis.... If you are reading "Yay-Hoo Finance" and buying their santorum..... WHY do you even bother to subscribre to Zero Hedge?

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 16:24 | 5782275 gmrpeabody
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You must be new around here...

It would be wise to take any and all sources with a few grains of salt.

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 16:21 | 5782264 cheech_wizard
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http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/RTSI$:IND

Not only are you incorrect, but chart porn proves you're wrong. And if one goes by strictly YTD, yes, the Russian index is leading the pack.

Which just proves two things, 1) you can't read a chart, and 2) you sound like one of those disgruntled types that bought the all-time high.

 

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 17:46 | 5782417 mattgallis
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Is being down 40% since May'14 and then up 13% since Janaury'15 (i'll let you calculate the net "gain") a good trade for you?

 

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 18:01 | 5782708 ArtOfLife
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According to ZH, buying silver @ 35 bucks 3 years ago, was a great decision. Wanna know why? Silver surged today from $17 to $17.35! 

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 19:38 | 5783004 The central planners
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PM's are a hedge agains central banks money printing frenzy not an investment actually, so ZH was right at recommended it even at 50's.

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 16:46 | 5782366 Sudden Debt
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It is not.  They also pay their workers in their own currency so profits are through the roof.

America on the other hand... has priced itself out of the market. Earnings will be down over 10% because of the dollar strenght, and the economy, Obamacare included can’t carry such a drop.

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:03 | 5781841 williambanzai7
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Bu, bu ,bu bu but...

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:04 | 5781847 chistletoe
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please, whatever you do, don' throw me in dat sanctified briar patch, brer' Bama .....

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:06 | 5781856 inevitablecollapse
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i thought we were to believe that stock markets were not a true measure of economic strength???

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:41 | 5782054 sun tzu
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i don't know what we're supposed to believe. the media and obama keep telling us the economy is great because of the stock market. are you saying they're lying?

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:59 | 5782160 inevitablecollapse
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i'm pretty sure that everything is a lie, MSM, alternative news, etc. etc. - all bullshit

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 16:36 | 5782331 gmrpeabody
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That's a damn lie....!

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:09 | 5781869 SnatchnGrab
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As a layman, might I asked how this was determined? For example, US start of year (15,000) to EoY (18,000) would be 20%?

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:17 | 5781922 tradingdaze
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Yes.  You may ask.

 

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 16:42 | 5782354 gmrpeabody
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Where in the world do you come up with US start of year (15,000)?

I am fairly sure they are talking about THIS year, which is 45 days old, give or take.

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:13 | 5781889 noben
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And yet the UAH/RUB relationship is FUBAR.
Go figure.

http://www.oanda.com/currency/converter/

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:12 | 5781890 George Soros
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What a bullshit, DAX is up 12% ytd, get your numbers right!

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 16:19 | 5782252 amadeus39
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Year to date is exactly 1 month and 2 weeks, and yes, Russia did very well during that time. Not so much in 2014.

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:13 | 5781897 Chad_the_short_...
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Ummmm...... Yes, I'm a huge Putin and Russia fan and hate the ziocons who run this country and west but come the fuck on with this shit. That's like comparing oil to us stocks. The fucking russian market was the only one that got hammered 60% or so while every other market was hitting new all time highs. Once again, come on with this shit.

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:16 | 5781912 noben
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Well, maybe the Tylers sold quietly some time ago, or their closet door is opening up. ;-)

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:43 | 5782069 sun tzu
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every other market? like brazil, mexico, and south korea?

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 16:08 | 5782203 englishvinal
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Stop listening and believing what the globalist/US/EU press-ti-tutes put out.  The information is skewed, just as the "unemployment figures" are skewed.

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:23 | 5781960 rejected
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Boy, when they pull the plug, it will be hilarious!

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:24 | 5781965 sam i am
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Since the introduction of the Russia's sanctions on the EU, some sectors of Russian agricultural complex are up from 40% to 200% in just three months.

Go, figure...

Also for your general education:

Two-front wars in Europe aren’t good for Germany.

Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolph Hitler don’t need to rise from their graves to make the point to the present German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. But is it her policy to pursue war against Russia in the east, and against Greece in the south, while claiming the conflicts have been forced on her by chekist Russians and chekist Greeks? The German characterization of both enemies as chekist comes from a high-level German figure who is close to the Chancellery and how Merkel thinks. In Berlin’s version of war in Europe, the new Nazis are in Moscow and Athens.

As for one of the leaders of the war party in Kiev, Merkel has privately and publicly endorsed every claim of Yulia Tymoshenko, promoting her release from prison and protecting her campaigns for war against Russia, even though – according to the high-level German source – “they [Chancellery, Foreign Ministry] have known for years that [Tymoshenko] was a crook.”
 

Since the civil war in Ukraine started after President Victor Yanukovich was ousted from Kiev on February 21, 2014, Merkel has repeatedly said in public that if Germany gives military support to the Kiev side, it will lead to war between Germany and Russia. This is how she said it after meeting with President Vladimir Putin at the G20 conference in Brisbane, Australia, last November: “This [Ukraine] conflict is not to be solved militarily. This would lead to a military engagement with Russia which would with certainty not be a local one.” Manipulation by Merkel’s aides of what she meant, as distinct from what she said, led to this cut and pasting in the Anglo-American press.

more here http://johnhelmer.net/?p=12639

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 15:36 | 5782031 lasvegaspersona
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Zimbabwe missed? Maybe next year!

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 16:04 | 5782183 fazsha2
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Gazprom is up 9.16% ytd.  Plus it pays an 8% dividend.

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 16:21 | 5782265 amadeus39
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You betcha. We invest to make money...not friends.

 

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 16:57 | 5782411 Hohum
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And what was the best investment one year ago?  Greek bonds and Japanese stocks?

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 17:01 | 5782435 tarabel
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Put your money on the table, boys and girls. There's gold in them thar steppes.

http://online.barrons.com/articles/bill-browder-from-investor-to-activist-in-putins-russia-1423281254?mod=BOL_hp_highlight_5

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 17:19 | 5782539 franciscopendergrass
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"Isolated, sanctioned, oil-crushed, 'economy is dying', warmonger" 

Tyler, I thought you were talking about the US for a second there.

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 17:24 | 5782566 Phillycheesesteak
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If I was Russian that would be cold comfort when the value of my currency has been cut in half. Zimbabwe's stock market skyrocketed when their currency collapsed.

Fri, 02/13/2015 - 17:29 | 5782594 ArtOfLife
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Like a 1.5 month move even matters.

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