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| 5/10/2013Market Performance |
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S&P National Bond Index
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3.00% |
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S&P California Bond Index
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2.96% |
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S&P New York Bond Index
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3.13% |
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S&P National 0-5 Year Municipal Bond Index
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0.70% |
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400.09 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index
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848.03 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (CAD)
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636.26 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (TR)
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1,701.05 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (TR) (CAD)
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1,276.26 |
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S&P REIT Index
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174.07 |
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S&P REIT Index (TR)
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425.30 |
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S&P MLP Index
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2,469.58 |
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S&P MLP Index (TR)
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5,428.50 |
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Will the Emerging Markets Investment Craze Lead to Fewer Trade Wars? |
TIME - Oct. 6, 2010 - By John Curran
It's an amazing part of this global economic anemia that investors large and small are finding the best balance of risk and return--and the most gusto-- in emerging markets. Just a few years ago these markets were considered the frightening frontier (anyone remember the 1997 crisis?) but increasingly they are the place where hedge funds, retirees, and everyone in between is turning for yield, long-term growth and all the things that the developed markets no longer seem to supply.
The performance of emerging markets (EM) so far this year seems to validate the longer term optimism. Thus far in 2010, EM government bonds are leading the investment returns sweepstakes, up 14.8% through September, while the number two spot goes to emerging market corporate bonds, up 13.7%. Both these categories beat US high-yield bonds as well as investment-grade bonds, which both returned about 11% to 12%. And they trounced the 3% gain in U.S. stocks over the first nine months of 2010.
All this data comes from a new monthly report Merrill Lynch just began publishing on emerging market corporate debt, just one more indication that investors interest in these fast-growing markets is intensifying. The report notes not only the "stellar" performance of emerging market bonds but also that these bonds are enjoying a higher rate of credit-rating upgrades than companies in developed markets. In other words, there's real progress underlying financial market strength.
So how will the sudden rise of emerging markets affect the global balance (or imbalance, as it were) of capital and currencies? Investment flows out of the dollar could exacerbate the greenback's decline, but the dollar lately seems more sensitive to Fed actions and news from Greece than it does to capital flows. Big passive investment flows can also be destabilizing if they overwhelm a small economy's ability to digest it all. But that risk, typically related to overly loose credit, seems less of a worry in the wake of the great credit blowout from which lenders are still recovering.
Read more: http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2010/10/06/emerging-markets-are-the-craze/#ixzz11gdal8gk
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