Global Markets - 2008 Performance Charts

There is very little I can say about this year - other than perhaps 2008 will go down in the annals of history as the year where 'the amount that the world had over-borrowed, was suddenly found out'.

As would be expected, stockmarkets have been volatile throughout much of the year and none moreso than from October onwards - prior to that, it was all negativity alone but since October we have seen bouts of volatility that have seen swings of 10% either side of the spectrum - all within 4 or 5 hours of trading.

This year, because of steep Commodity and Currency swings, I am going to show 5 Commodity charts and 5 Currency charts also to give you an insight as to what has been happening.

To help give you a better idea of how individual stockmarkets have performed, we have (as we do every year) compiled charts for each of the world's top 75 Stockmarkets - a picture speaks a thousand words as we say.

To see how the individual markets have performed, please just click on the links below.

At the bottom, you will see the Commodity and Currency Charts listed.

How did your country perform in 2008? To see a league-table of the top and bottom-performing stockmarkets this year, please just click Here.

Stockmarkets

Commodities

Currencies

And one just for fun ...............

All graphs are in Macromedia Flash.

For the 2005 final table, click Here, For the 2006 final table,click Here & 2007 is Here