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New York - Who won investment in 2011? Gold, oil or stocks?Not. Champion of the best investments in the year 2011 turned out to be U.S. government bonds.
Despite downgrading 'AAA' that carried the U.S. and rising public deficit, but it turns out U.S. bonds or U.S. Treasury still be hunting investors even recorded the best performance compared to others in its class the majority of assets during the year 2011.
U.S. debt term of 10 years able to deliver up to 17% during the year 2011, or is the biggest gain since 2008. Other assets that provide a high yield is up 10% gold and oil rose about 8% during 2011.
While the performance of stock markets recorded the worst because it fell more than 9% during 2011.
Increasing concerns about the debt crisis in Europe, and also the policy of low interest rates applied to 2013 U.S. Central Bank had made bonds highly attractive to investors.
Some debt securities agency managers like Bill Gross, manager of PIMCO, which is the world's largest bond fund, was forced to release a big gamble on debt related to the U.S. government in mid-2011 after it became clear bond rally will not disappear any time soon.
"We started this year with the yield on the 10-year bonds at 3.3% and almost all agreed the view interest rates will not be anywhere but up," said Kevin Giddis, president of fixed income capital markets at Morgan Keegan, as quoted by Reuters on Monday(01/02/2012).
The yield for 10-year bond futures on Friday (12/30/2011) at the level of 1.876%, below the psychological level of 2%.
Among the assets that have good performance, gold traded at U.S. $ 1564.60 per ounce in recent trading in 2011. Gold prices rose 10.2% recorded during the year 2011, which means an annual increase for 11 consecutive years.
Gold is still recorded the best performance despite the selloff in recent weeks, as the liquidity crunch that forced investors to sell precious metals to meet its obligations.
While carrying crude oil rose 8.2% to U.S. $ 98.83 per barrel during the year 2011, amid the instability of oil production in oil-rich countries such as Libya and also concerns about the European crisis.
The least profitable for the year 2011 is the stock market.Pressure of the European crisis continues to erode gains in the stock market and the euro. The MSCI All-Country World recorded slumped 9.5%, although on the last trading day of 2011 had edged up 0.3%.
Especially for Wall Street, the Dow Jones rose 5.5% was recorded while the S & P 500 flat for the year 2011. In trading Friday (30.12.2011), the Dow Jones fell 69.48 points recorded (0.57%) to the level of 12217.56. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index also fell 5.41 points (0.43%) to a level of 1257.61 and the Nasdaq fell 8.59 points (0.33%) to a level of 2605.15.
The single currency euro recorded its lowest point in 10 years against the yen and ended down 3.3% against the U.S. dollar during 2011. On Friday, the euro weakened 0.1% against the U.S. dollar at U.S. $ 1.2945.
"The euro is still relatively well amid the crisis we have seen, but apparently will face new pressures in the year 2012," said Simon Smith, an economist from FxPro.
"We already have a large and sharp movements, and now we are pretty flat for the year 2011," said Joe Saluzzin, co-manager of Themis Trading.
source: detikfinance.com
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Despite downgrading 'AAA' that carried the U.S. and rising public deficit, but it turns out U.S. bonds or U.S. Treasury still be hunting investors even recorded the best performance compared to others in its class the majority of assets during the year 2011.
U.S. debt term of 10 years able to deliver up to 17% during the year 2011, or is the biggest gain since 2008. Other assets that provide a high yield is up 10% gold and oil rose about 8% during 2011.
While the performance of stock markets recorded the worst because it fell more than 9% during 2011.
Increasing concerns about the debt crisis in Europe, and also the policy of low interest rates applied to 2013 U.S. Central Bank had made bonds highly attractive to investors.
Some debt securities agency managers like Bill Gross, manager of PIMCO, which is the world's largest bond fund, was forced to release a big gamble on debt related to the U.S. government in mid-2011 after it became clear bond rally will not disappear any time soon.
"We started this year with the yield on the 10-year bonds at 3.3% and almost all agreed the view interest rates will not be anywhere but up," said Kevin Giddis, president of fixed income capital markets at Morgan Keegan, as quoted by Reuters on Monday(01/02/2012).
The yield for 10-year bond futures on Friday (12/30/2011) at the level of 1.876%, below the psychological level of 2%.
Among the assets that have good performance, gold traded at U.S. $ 1564.60 per ounce in recent trading in 2011. Gold prices rose 10.2% recorded during the year 2011, which means an annual increase for 11 consecutive years.
Gold is still recorded the best performance despite the selloff in recent weeks, as the liquidity crunch that forced investors to sell precious metals to meet its obligations.
While carrying crude oil rose 8.2% to U.S. $ 98.83 per barrel during the year 2011, amid the instability of oil production in oil-rich countries such as Libya and also concerns about the European crisis.
The least profitable for the year 2011 is the stock market.Pressure of the European crisis continues to erode gains in the stock market and the euro. The MSCI All-Country World recorded slumped 9.5%, although on the last trading day of 2011 had edged up 0.3%.
Especially for Wall Street, the Dow Jones rose 5.5% was recorded while the S & P 500 flat for the year 2011. In trading Friday (30.12.2011), the Dow Jones fell 69.48 points recorded (0.57%) to the level of 12217.56. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index also fell 5.41 points (0.43%) to a level of 1257.61 and the Nasdaq fell 8.59 points (0.33%) to a level of 2605.15.
The single currency euro recorded its lowest point in 10 years against the yen and ended down 3.3% against the U.S. dollar during 2011. On Friday, the euro weakened 0.1% against the U.S. dollar at U.S. $ 1.2945.
"The euro is still relatively well amid the crisis we have seen, but apparently will face new pressures in the year 2012," said Simon Smith, an economist from FxPro.
"We already have a large and sharp movements, and now we are pretty flat for the year 2011," said Joe Saluzzin, co-manager of Themis Trading.
source: detikfinance.com
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