{"id":14118,"date":"2011-07-18T14:45:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T18:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=14118"},"modified":"2016-09-20T09:04:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T13:04:28","slug":"european-markets-a-change-of-complexion-charting-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/european-markets-a-change-of-complexion-charting-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"European Markets &#8211; A Change of Complexion (Charting Performance)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of a sudden there is some fear back in the markets. Over the past year, there has been a great deal of spin put on the European crisis. Now investors are waking up to the fact that there really is a crisis developing.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the stress tests once again provided some comfort, less than 10 out of the 91 banks failed and that is difficult to believe&#8230; Unless&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough there are many that are commenting<!--more--> today that the whole process was a sham. How is it possible that so few are deemed to be below the required capital ratios, unless the requirements are too low.<\/p>\n<p>Markets are digesting the info and don&#8217;t like what they see.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Updated 12pm<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/global_wei.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14122\" title=\"global_wei\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/global_wei-610x591-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"591\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look at the spread of returns on a year to date basis for the major EuroZone markets. Then consider the real returns in their native currencies. Quite a difference.<a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/euro_usd-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14121\" title=\"euro_usd\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/euro_usd-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/euro_local1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14120\" title=\"euro_local\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/euro_local1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of a sudden there is some fear back in the markets. Over the past year, there has been a great deal of spin put on the European crisis. Now investors are waking up to the fact that there really is a crisis developing. Even as the stress tests once again provided some comfort, less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,42],"tags":[481,490],"class_list":["post-14118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","category-stocks","tag-economy","tag-stocks","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}