Corporations listed in the Eurozone nations are clearly being penalized relative to their Western European counterparts outside the Eurozone. Here are the year-to-date returns by country.
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| YTD equity returns in local currency |
And it's not limited to the Eurozone periphery. Take for example the Nordic markets. Denmark, Norway, and Sweden are up, while Finland is down.
Year-to-date, on a capitalization weighted basis, Western European markets not using the euro have outperformed the Eurozone markets by 5%. Of course if the currency changes are taken into account, this divergence is much higher.
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