ETF Scorecard – July 11th Edition

Bearish pressures swept over Wall Street this past week as the bulls had to step aside after European debt woes resurfaced and rattled investors’ confidence in the already anemic recovery taking place in the overseas currency bloc. Sell orders swarmed European markets and spilled over onto the home front after Portugal’s largest publicly traded bank, Banco Espirito Santo, said that it had missed payments on some of its debt, serving as a rude reminder of the region’s financially-fragile state. To help investors keep up with markets, we present our ETF Scorecard, which takes a step back and looks at how various asset classes across the globe are performing. For most of the return comparisons below, we reference trailing 1-week and trailing 1-month returns; this offers a good insight into the prevailing sentiment in the markets by capturing the performances across short-term and longer-term time intervals [for more ETF news and analysis subscribe to […] Click here to read the original article on ETFdb.com. Related Posts: ETF Scorecard – June 27th Edition ETF Scorecard – June 20th Edition ETF Scorecard – June 13th Edition ETF Scorecard – June 6th Edition ETF Scorecard – May 30th Edition