2012 Country Stock Market Returns

So how does the US returns stack up against other country returns so far this year?  Well according to Bespoke the US even with it's hot return of 11.58% only gets into the upper 50% of the world rankings.  Venezuela was the big winner while there were only 12 countries that posted negative returns with the lowest return country being Sri Lanka loosing 10.9%.  With all of its attention, Greece is solidly in the back returning 7.99%.



Via Bespoke

• Japan is up the most of the G7 countries with a significant gain of 19.63%.  Germany ranks second in the G7 with a gain of 16.56%, followed by the US and then France.  Canada is doing the worst with a gain of just 2.80%.
• The BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) had been doing much better until this week rolled around.  After big drops over the last three days, China is only up 2.40% on the year.  India is now up just 10.38% YTD, while Brazil and Russia are still up solid double digits.