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The January Effect(s)
It’s January, so let’s talk about the January Effect. But which January Effect would that be? We’ve come across three different uses of the term. A quick overview follows. 1. Small-caps out-perform...
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World markets performance in January 2013
The following chart shows the performance of a selection of world markets in January 2013. The FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 Indices were up 6.4% and 5.3% respectively.
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2013 market review – annual performance
In 2013 the FTSE All-Share Index rose 16.7%. This was the 26th strongest performance for the UK equity market in the past 100 years. NB. The Y-axis in the above chart has been limited to the range -30%...
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2013 market review – comparative performance of UK equity indices
The following chart shows the performance of the main UK stock market indices in 2013. As can be seen, the FTSE 100 Index had the lowest returns of the indices. The strongest performance was from small...
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2013 market review – comparative performance of FTSE 350 sectors
The following chart shows the performance of the FTSE 350 stock sectors in 2013. 26 of the 38 sectors out-performed the FTSE 100 Index in the year, with 24 sectors increasing over 20%. Only three...
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2013 market review – international markets
Equity and commodity markets The following chart shows the returns on a range of international stock markets and commodities in 2013. A few notes- Japan was easily the strongest market in this...
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The following table shows the seven FTSE All-Share stocks that have had the highest number of consecutive positive annual returns to end 2014. The last column gives the number of years of consecutive...
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The following table shows the 13 FTSE All-Share stocks that have had the highest number of consecutive negative annual returns to end 2014. The last column gives the number of years of consecutive...
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FTSE All-Share Index annual returns
The following chart plots the annual returns of the FTSE All-Share Index since 1900. [NB. The values for 1973 and 1974 were respectively -55% and 136%, and have been truncated in the chart to make the...
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Olympic Games and the stockmarket
Does analysis of the historic behaviour of stock markets around the time of the four-yearly Olympic Games have anything of interest for investors? The Olympic Games are a major event, often requiring...
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