Only one of eight indexes on our world watch list have posted gains through Monday, April 2, 2018. The top performer this year is Hong Kong's Hang Seng with a minor gain of 0.58%. In second is India's BSE SENSEX with a loss of 2.50%. In third is France's CAC 40 with a loss of 2.73%. Coming in last is London's FTSE 100 with a loss of 8.21%.

2018 Performance

Here is an overlay of the eight illustrating their comparative performance in 2018.

Here are all eight world indexes sorted by YTD gain.

A Longer Perspective

For a longer look at the relative performance, our final chart starts at the turn of the century, again indexing each at 800 for the start date.

Check back next week for a new update.

Note: We track Germany's DAXK a price-only index, instead of the more familiar DAX index (which includes dividends), for consistency with the other indexes, which do not include dividends. 

All the indexes are calculated in their local currencies.