Western Hemisphere Stocks: All Down w/e 2/25/11

February 26th, 2011
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Econintersect:  The indexes followed by GEI were all down in the Americas this week.  The strongest index was the very defensive Dow Jones Utilities, down only 0.1%, and the natural resource heavy Toronto Exchange, down 0.5%.  With the spike in fuel costs the Dow Jones Transports were especially hard hot, with losses totalling 4.5%.  All other indexes were down from 1.7% to 2.2%.

Follow up:

Four of the nine indexes are now is the red for 2011.  Results summary:

Americas stocks ytd 2-25-2011 

Source:  Yahoo Finance

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