World Stock Market Performance in New Year 2012

Index Name	30-Dec-11	6-Jan-12	Change	In %
Dow Jones	12260	12351	91	0.742251
Nasdaq	2609	2673	64	2.453047
Nikkei	8357	8390	33	0.394879
Kospi	1826	1825	-1	-0.05476
Hangseng	18755	18488	-267	-1.42362
Shanghai	2182	2220	38	1.741522
S&P 500	1260	1277	17	1.349206
CAC	3162	3134	-28	-0.88552
DAX	5909	6054	145	2.453884
FTSE	5628	5643	15	0.266525
Sensex	15702	15771	69	0.439434

*Above Pie Chart is a reflection of this chart.

Stock Market Performance over the first week of the new year 2012 is not much convincing with clear directions of upward or downward bias not clear. While Dow Jones was Flat, NASDAQ showed better performance with 2% gain over the week. Shanghai, DAX, S&P 500 and Asian market closed with positive bias with CAC and Kospi closing with negative bias.

Markets worldwide are likely to show a disconnect among themselves with US showing flat to negative performance and Europe completing there bottoming out process during this month. Europe will exhibit good volatility as it strives to solves the deficit issues of its countries in the first half. Do expect a lot of see-saw there though. Financials and companies with high debt are likely to make new bottoms, a technical rally than should bring some sanity. Though remember NO BOTTOM IS GOOD ENOUGH. Gold and US Dollar will be safer investments during this time.

World Stock Market Performance in 2011

Note: Above returns have been calculated by normalizing the value at 0% at the start of 2011.

Taking a peak at the Stock Market performance for the year 2011 gives us two intriguing facts, First that US markets have been outperforming for last two years when the businesses there have been showing bad signs and employment figures not anywhere convincing. Second that Asia(including Japan) as a basket has under performed in a  big way. 

A cue one can take from the markets is that US has probably had its fair share of returns due to its severe under performance at the time of recession and one can look at Asia given there share of under performance over the last two years. Bounce back from lows is a known fact and while picture is becoming rosy in US with good employment figures doing the rounds, it already priced in by the US markets.

A investor can now look at Japan and Asia in 2012 and expect good returns, while they are expected to under perform in the first 3 months to complete the bottoming out process, good returns can be expected from April on wards.

Welcome to the Blog!

Hi All,

Welcome to Shares Price Blog. My name is Rohit Jain and I have been investing in the Indian Share Market from the time I completed my graduation, that is from the year 2004. 

I started investing from the early stages of the Boom cycle and have seen the bust cycle panning out as well. While it stays challenging to invest in both markets as we try to beat everyone else in the run to maximize returns on our capital, a individual who is a pure investor is able to keep his calm through boom and bust cycles.

I will be suggesting stocks on the blog with my views on the World Stock Markets.

Wishing you All A Very Happy New Year 2012 and Happy Investing !!!