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The month of April historically has been the strongest performing months of the year for U.S. equity markets and one of the strongest performing months of the year for the TSX Composite Index. Thackray’s 2011 Investor’s Guide notes that average return per period during the past 10 April’s were as follows:
Index Average Return (%)
Dow Jones Industrial Average 2.75
S&P 500 Index 2.71
NASDAQ Composite 3.25
TSX Composite 1.48
Russell 2000 3.36
Best performing sectors during the past 20 periods are Energy, Materials, Industrials and Financials. Worst performing sector is Telecom. Best performing sub-sectors are Autos & Components, Semiconductors and Integrated Oil &Gas. Worst performing subsector is Gold.
Following are other 10 year studies:
Index Average Return (%)
Dow Jones Transportation Average 3.69
Philadelphia Oil Services Index 6.98
S&P Technology 3.02
S&P Consumer Discretionary 3.35
S&P Energy 4.01
S&P Industrials 3.30
S&P Financial Services 3.26
S&P Materials 2.40
Nikkei Average 2.15
London FT Index 2.58
Frankfurt DAX 4.21
Paris CAC 2.92
Brazil Bovespa 3.85
Shanghai Composite 3.70
Australia All Ordinaries 1.84
Commodity Average Return (%)
Gold 0.87
Silver 0.32
Platinum (0.04)
Lumber 1.86
Copper 5.61
Crude Oil 2.61
Aluminum 1.17
Alberta Natural Gas (2.54)
Amex Biotech 1.38
Broker/Dealer Index 3.17
Amex Gold Bug Index (1.27)
Philadelphia Gold Index (1.24)
Global Agriculture 1.52 |
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