Weekly Recap: Randomness and Time

world equity markets 2014-03-28.2014-04-04

The Nifty ended the week more-or-less flat.

Major
DAX(DEU) +1.13%
CAC(FRA) +1.66%
UKX(GBR) +1.21%
NKY(JPN) +2.50%
SPX(USA) +0.53%
MINTs
JCI(IDN) +1.88%
INMEX(MEX) +1.20%
NGSEINDX(NGA) +0.99%
XU030(TUR) +4.94%
BRICS
IBOV(BRA) +2.55%
SHCOMP(CHN) +0.84%
NIFTY(IND) -0.02%
INDEXCF(RUS) +2.85%
TOP40(ZAF) +0.86%
Commodities(CME)
Gold Futures $1303.20 +0.73%
Silver Futures $19.93 +0.78%
Platinum Futures $1449.40 +3.18%
Copper Futures $3.04 -0.52%
Nymex Steel Futures $653.00 +2.19%
Brent Crude Oil Last Day Financial Futures $106.72 -1.25%
E-mini Natural Gas Futures $4.44 -1.03%

Nifty Heatmap

CNX NIFTY heatmap 2014-03-28.2014-04-04

Index Performance

index performance 2014-03-28.2014-04-04

Top winners and losers

SAIL +10.20%
UPL +10.62%
RANBAXY +26.30%
BHEL -8.30%
CONCOR -6.22%
GAIL -4.98%
Who will Bhel the cat as it Sails away?

ETFs

JUNIORBEES +3.93%
PSUBNKBEES +0.94%
NIFTYBEES +0.24%
GOLDBEES -0.82%
BANKBEES -1.01%
INFRABEES -2.59%
Midcaps rocked, infrastructure back in the red…

Investment Theme Performance

Sector Performance

sector performance 2014-03-28.2014-04-04

Yield Curve

Year-end cash crunch?

yield Curve 2014-03-28.2014-04-04

Thought for the weekend

The professional investor’s average or below-average years will dilute the benefit of his “winning” years as mean reversion knocks his lifetime track record back down to earth. Peter Lynch must have known this when he retired in 1990 at the top of his game – he left the magic intact before reality and probability could strip him of it.
 
Randomness and Time team up to take almost all of us down, one way or the other.

Source: The Best and Worst Thing About Investing

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