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Making money in stocks? Where?
No denying that lots of folks say that they are loving the economy believing in the super job growth and the sweet returns of the stock market. But before jumping on that bandwagon, remember most of the praise comes from our president and those he has hired to praise him and praise all things Trump-related.
A look at the chart above, included in a recent SeekingAlpha.com article, shows how various types of stocks have fallen from their highs during the past 52 weeks.
Commentary in that same story pointed out that the telecom services sector stocks are down an average of nearly 19% from their highs and consumer discretionary stocks down 16%.
So how you doin?
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Market Quick Glance
The DJIA was the only index that had a lower year-to-date return last week than it had the previous week.
Below are the weekly and 1-year index performance results for four major indices— including the dates each reached new highs—according to CNBC.com based on prices at the close of business on Friday, July 7, 2018.
–DJIA -1.06% YTD down even more than the previous week’s return of -056%
•1 yr Rtn 14.71% down from the previous week’s 14.88%
Most recent DJIA all-time high was reached on January 26, 2018 of 26,616.71. The previous high was reached January 18, 2018 was 26,153.42.
-S&P 500 3.22% YTD up from last week’s 1.67%
•1 yr Rtn 14.53% up from last week’s 12.34%
The S&P 500 reached its most recent all-time high on January 26, 2018 of 2,872.87. The previous high was reached on January 19, 2018 of 2810.33.
-NASDAQ 11.37% YTD up a lot from last week’s 8.79%
- 1yr Rtn 26.26% way up from last week’s 22.23%
Nasdaq reached a BRAND NEW ALL-TIME HIGH on June 20, 2018 of 7,806.6. The previous highs was reached on June 14,2018 of 7,768.6.
-Russell 2000 10.74% YTD up a heap from last week’s 7.00%
- 1yr Rtn 20.93% up a lot from last week’s 16.02%
The Russell 2000 reached a BRAND NEW ALL-TIME HIGH on June 20, 2018 of 1,708.1. The previous high was reached June 12, 2018 of 1,686.37.
-Mutual funds
Changes abound with some not exactly hot returns lately for your basic mutual fund. At the close of business on Thursday, July 5, 2018, the total return performance of the funds under the U.S. Diversified Equity Funds heading had an average return of 4.35%, according to Lipper.
Nonetheless, it’s still a small cap world as the average cumulative total return for Small-Cap Growth Funds averaged 14.34%.
The category of funds with the closest average y-t-d- return behind it was–surprize surprize—Lare-Cap Growth funds at 9.73%.
Double digit y-t-d average returns were also found under the Sector Funds heading with Science & Tech Funds, 12.04%, followed by Global Science/ Tech Funds, 11.64% and then Health/Tech Funds, 10.43%.
Visit www.allaboutfunds.com for more information about how various equity and fixed-income funds have rewarded investors over the short-and long-term, based upon Lipper data. Short-term meaning weekly and monthly performance returns; longer-term includes quarterly, year-to-date, 1-yr, 2-yr, 3-yr and 5-yr returns.
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More of US not working
Numbers show that not nearly as many of us are working today as there were 10 years ago.
MyBudget360.com reported that one-third of our work force—or 95.5 million Americans– are not working today. That’s a big jump up from the 80 million not working in 2009.
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