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TSX vs S&P500

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The TSX year-to-date is outperforming the S&P500 by 6.6% in $Cdn (after 5 years of underperformance).
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Dudsy wrote:The TSX year-to-date is outperforming the S&P500 by 6.6% in $Cdn (after 5 years of underperformance).
How is 5 weeks performance relevant? Just so much financial pornography.
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Most S&P stocks stopped advancing by late 2014; only a handful of stocks created last years positive movement lead by the biotechs and FANG stocks. Well the biotech bubble burst last fall and the FANG-type stocks are looking a little shaky right now.

Back in 2000, with the tech stocks plunging, the "old economy" stocks finally found some support. Right now investors seem to be putting money into sectors that were absolutely hated last year. Is this relevant?... I don't know... it could be.
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When one owns VTI and holds it potentially forever, there is nothing to worry about.
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AltaRed wrote:When one owns VTI and holds it potentially forever, there is nothing to worry about.
Different strokes for different folks. :D
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AltaRed wrote:When one owns VTI and holds it potentially forever, there is nothing to worry about.
+1 Have a stink bid in at this very moment for even more..
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Koogie wrote:Have a stink bid in at this very moment for even more..
A stink bid can be characterized as an anti stop-loss. :-)
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TSX now up 9.9% ytd vs S&P ($Cdn).
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Dudsy wrote:TSX now up 9.9% ytd vs S&P ($Cdn).
I would hope so given its (and the loonie's) pathetic performance the last few years. How lucky do you feel about commodities?

FWIW, for full disclosure, I am overweight Cdn equities but have virtually nothing in the energy sector, and I like it that way.
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13.5% ytd... Cdn market is doing well this year.
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Dudsy wrote:13.5% ytd... Cdn market is doing well this year.
If I look at the S&P/TSX Composite Index, I get a YTD total return with re-invested dividends of 6.4% (TRIV 31/12/2015 = 40881.84, TRIV 18/04/2016 = 43512.59).

What are you using for the Cdn Market?

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As per the title, TSX vs S&P500 (in $Cdn)



like_to_retire wrote:
Dudsy wrote:13.5% ytd... Cdn market is doing well this year.
If I look at the S&P/TSX Composite Index, I get a YTD total return with re-invested dividends of 6.4% (TRIV 31/12/2015 = 40881.84, TRIV 18/04/2016 = 43512.59).

What are you using for the Cdn Market?

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Koogie wrote:
+1 Have a stink bid in at this very moment for even more..
With the US market up 80%ish over the past three years in CDN dollars, how would you define "stink bid"? :wink:

(If fairness, looking out over longer terms, it has been playing catch up -- though still relatively high at least in terms of CAPE and still outperforming over very long terms.)
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