The Year in Numbers

The Year in Numbers

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Note: 1/7…I have amended the Lipper fund returns per a table found in the 1/7 Wall Street Journal.

2012 in Review

Dow Jones  +7.3%
S&P 500  +13.4%
Nasdaq  +15.9%
Russell 2000  +14.6%

Japan (Nikkei)  +22.9%
U.K. (FTSE)  +5.8%
Germany (DAX) +29.1% 
France (CAC 40) +15.2%

BRICs

Brazil (Sao Paulo) +7.4%
Russia (Moscow) +10.5%
India (Bombay) +25.7%
China (Shanghai) +3.2%

U.S. stock mutual fund averages [Lipper indices]
 

Large Cap Growth   +15.3%
Large Cap Value  +15.3%
Small Cap Growth  +13.1%
Small Cap Value  +16.3%
International +17.7% 

Dow Jones Global ex-U.S. +13.6%

12/31/12 

Dow Jones 13104…52-week range [13610-12101]

S&P 500 1426…[1465-1257]
Nasdaq 3019…[3183-2605]…was up 12 of first 13 weeks of 2012 to 3091
 
All-time highs 

Dow Jones 14164 (10/9/07)
S&P 500 1565 (10/9/07)
Nasdaq 5048 (3/10/00) 

S&P 500 [Total return including dividends] 
 

1995  +37.4
1996  +23.1
1997  +33.4
1998  +28.6
1999  +21.0
2000  -9.1
2001  -11.9
2002  -22.1
2003  +28.7
2004  +10.9
2005  +4.9
2006  +15.8
2007  +5.5
2008  -37.0
2009  +26.5
2010  +15.1
2011  +2.1
2012 +16.0
 
Nasdaq
 
1995  +39.9
1996  +22.7
1997  +21.6
1998  +39.6
1999  +85.6
2000  -39.3
2001  -21.1
2002  -31.5
2003  +50.0
2004  +8.6
2005  +1.4
2006  +9.5
2007  +9.8
2008  -40.5
2009  +43.8
2010  +16.9
2011  -1.8
2012 +15.9
 
Gold
 
12/96  $368
12/97  $289
12/98  $288
12/99  $289
12/00  $272
12/01  $279
12/02  $347
12/03  $416
12/04  $438
12/05  $519
12/06  $638
12/07  $838
12/08  $884
12/09  $1096
12/10  $1421
12/11  $1566
12/12 $1674…twelve straight up years

*Gold’s all-time high is $1923, intraday, set on 9/6/11

Oil (Light Sweet Crude)
 

12/99  $25.20
12/00  $26.80
12/01  $19.84
12/02  $31.20
12/03  $32.52
12/04  $43.45
12/05  $61.04
12/06  $61.05
12/07  $95.98
12/08  $44.60
12/09  $79.36
12/10  $91.38 
12/11  $98.83
12/12 $91.80

*Crude Oil’s all-time high was set on 7/11/08…$147 

U.S. Treasury Yields…2-yr. / 10-yr.
 

12/31/99…6.24 / 6.43
 
12/31/03…1.82 / 4.25
 
12/31/04…3.07 / 4.22
 
12/31/05…4.40 / 4.39
 
12/31/06…4.82 / 4.72
 
12/31/07…3.05 / 4.03
 
12/31/08…0.76 / 2.21
 
12/31/09…1.14 / 3.83
 
12/31/10…0.59 / 3.29
 
12/31/11…0.24 / 1.88

12/31/12…0.25 / 1.76

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Wall Street History returns in two weeks.

 
Brian Trumbore