2000 Charts of the Week
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- It Takes a 60% Gain to Offset a 37% Loss
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted June 23, 2000
- It is important to understand these mathematics because today’s prices are being subjected to wide moves.
- Has Inflation Been Tamed?
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted June 16, 2000
- The current inflation news measured by the CPI does not appear to be telling the whole story.
- Time is on Your Side
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted June 9, 2000
- The earlier you start to save, the less it will cost you to become a millionaire.
- Asset Allocation for the Long
and Short Term - MarketView Chart of the Week, posted June 2, 2000
- How you allocate among broad asset classes will have a significant impact on the long-term performance and volatility of your retirement account. But what many investors don’t consider are the shorter-term implications.
- Time for a Rotation?
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted May 26, 2000
- What we know for sure is that one particular segment will not remain the popular trend forever. What we don’t know is when this change, or “rotation,” will occur.
- Reining in the Spending
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted May 19, 2000
- While personal consumption is a somewhat volatile index, it doesn’t appear that recent interest rate hikes have done much to tame consumer spending.
- Value Stocks Turn Around in April
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted May 12, 2000
- Across all cap sizes, value stocks lagged growth companies during the first quarter of 2000.
- Inflation Alert!
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted May 5, 2000
- The specter of inflation is finally pressuring interest rates.
- How Multi-Management Pays Off
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted April 28, 2000
- “Multi-management” is an investment strategy in which more than one investment manager is used in a single fund.
- Why Chasing Returns Doesn’t Work
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted April 21, 2000
- Many investors upon seeing quarter-end returns make changes to their fund allocations. This strategy rarely produces superior results.
- Style Trends Take a Turn
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted April 14, 2000
- Growth stocks were outperforming value stocks until late March when value stocks picked up steam.; now growth and value have traded places.
- Market Narrowness Persists in First Quarter
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted April 7, 2000
- For the first quarter of 2000, the S&P Index eked out a 2.0% price return (excluding dividends).
- Five-Star Funds in 1996 . . . And Five-Star Funds in 1999
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted March 31, 2000
- By following the stars alone, an investor risks making overly large allocations to market segments that have recently performed strongly and underweighting those that may be due for a rebound.
- When Beta Is Meaningful
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted March 24, 2000
- Beta is a statistical measure that indicates the degree of variability of an asset’s returns as compared to the returns of a market benchmark.
- How Costly Is This “New Economy”?
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted March 17, 2000
- The term “New Economy” has been tossed around repeatedly lately. What exactly does it mean?
- Smaller Stocks: The New Market Leaders?
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted March 10, 2000
- The large differential between the S&P 500 Index and the Russell 2000 Index of smaller stocks has been characterized by some market watchers as a rotation from large-cap to smaller-cap dominance.
- Small- and Mid-cap Issues Are in Favor YTD
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted March 3, 2000
- An interesting divergence has taken place thus far year-to-date among market capitalization segments: the Wilshire 4500 Index is ahead almost 15%, while the Wilshire 5000 and S&P 500 Indexes lag behind in negative territory.
- Disparity Among Value Stocks
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted February 25, 2000
- It seems that in 1999, investors whochose low yielding large-cap value stocks received a greater total return on their investment than investors who chose high-yielding large-cap value stocks.
- Do Low Dividend Yields Still Mean What They Used To?
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted February 18, 2000
- Since 1990, dividend yields have continued to decline as stock prices persist in their seemingly boundless ascent.
- Following the Stars . . . Or Not
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted February 11, 2000
- Investors who rely on Morningstar’s Star Ratings as a sole method of fund evaluation may be selling themselves short.
- The Road to Inversion
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted February 4, 2000
- The credit markets are experiencing a rare phenomenon. Longer-term bonds have lower interest rates than shorter-term bonds.
- Fees Really Do Add Up Over the Long Run
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted January 28, 2000
- An important consideration in mutual fund selection is the fees charged by the investment managers.
- Last Year’s Laggards Are Leading in 2000
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted January 21, 2000
- Three weeks into the new year, last year’s laggards are the only sectors to produce positive year-to-date returns, while the hottest sectors have cooled.
- Yield Comparison Shows Bonds Looking Cheap
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted January 14, 2000
- Bonds look enormously cheap by this valuation measure.
- Narrow Performance from the S&P 500 in 1999
- MarketView Chart of the Week, posted January 7, 2000
- Just because the S&P 500 Index ended the year with an almost 20% price return doesn’t mean that all the stocks in the index produced similar gains.
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