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By Philip Lawlor, managing director, Global Markets Research
US investors have been licking their wounds from their overseas returns as the weakness in non-US currencies have significantly affected returns. The chart below, which compares global equity returns since the peak in global equity performance on February 19, highlights some divergence in performance between local currency and US dollar returns.
As the table shows, the worst performing developed equity markets to date in local currency terms included Australia and in Europe, Italy, Spain and France, all of which lost up to 32% in returns. For a