U.S. vs. THEM

OneEyedMan at Belligerati has inspired an update with his recent post. The question: How have U.S. stock markets been performing relative to world markets?

The answer, as of March 6th, 2009:


...And in fancy-pants format:


...So... Not that bad. Relatively.

Only the FTSE tops the DOW (though all these percentage drops are far too close to make meaningful comparisons). And, of course, that's not a reason to flock to British stocks:

Sure, the FTSE has fallen less, but it never really touched the sky like the Dow, ya know?

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Now, as for the post that inspired this: I'm interested to find out if knowing that U.S. stocks have performed only marginally better than the rest of the world changes the original opinion...