By David Hunkar:
The equity markets of major European economies have lagged the performance of the U.S. market so far this year. The year-to-date returns of the main European markets as of Sept 22nd are listed below:
UK’s FTSE 100: 0.4%
France’s CAC 40: 3.4%
Spain’s IBEX 35: 10.4%
Germany’s DAX: 2.1%
U.S. stocks have performed very well relatively, with the S&P 500 up 7.9% as of Sept 22, 2014.