YEAR IN REVIEW (a few days early)
Indices performance % YTD
Note the lag in smalls (cyan), up 14.23% so far this year, while SPX (purple) is up 19.84%, and INDU (lime) is up 25.36%
Weekly chart
Long-term performance going all the way back to the big low of 3/9/2009.
Best are discretionary (pink) and financials (red).
Even if you substitute RCD (equal-weight discretionary, not shown here), it is still the best performer.
So the hope is that as a [~70%] consumption economy, we’ll continue buying those Tchotchkes, and hopefully our credit card defaults won’t grow too big…
Weekly chart