Sunday, October 5, 2008

Third Quarter Roundup

Third quarter was pretty ugly, across the board. The S&P 500 declined -9.0%, which was relatively less of a decline than most markets across the globe.Here is how the major indexes stood for the year, as of 9/30:S&P 500: -20.7%; Nasdaq 100: -24.0%; Russell 2000: -11.3%China: -56.4%; Japan: -26.4%; Brazil: -22.5%The dollar spiked +11.7% during Q3, and is +3.4% for the yearOil tanked -28.1% during Q3, and is only +4.9% on the year currentlyOff all the mutual funds in the universe that I follow for our f[...]

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[Source: The Money Blogs]

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