Wall Street YTD Growth Closed Green, Put Optimism for 2012

Although some G-20 Indexes are in green territoty for the last day of December 2011, only Wall Street and Jakarta stock kept in green for Year To Date stock growth 2011 at the end of year.

On Wall Street, positive news on home sales and improved prospects for job growth sent stocks higher on Thursday. And as US economic overall appear to be slightly positive, some optimism are rising for the economy in 2012. According to the poll, 37 percent expect economic improvement in the next 12 months, compared with 24 percent who think the economy will slide downhill.

Global stocks tumbled in lockstep, suffering from the effects of natural disasters, a wobbly recovery in the U.S. ; and an escalating European debt crisis that remains resistant to the endless measures taken by the region's governments and financial institutions. Some pesimistic analyst said that Europe will enter a decade of no solutions and no growth.

G-20 COUNTRIES STOCK INDEX YEAR TO DATE DEC-30, 2011
NO	G-20 MEMBER	INDEX	PRICE		GROWTH
			Last day of Dec 2010	Last day of Dec 2011	%
1	European Union	EURO STOXX 50	2,792.82	2,316.55	-17.1
2	United States	DOW	11,577.51	12,217.56	5.5
3	China	SSEC	2,808.80	2,173.56	-22.6
4	Japan	N225	10,228.92	8,455.35	-17.3
5	Germany	DAX	6,914.19	5,898.35	-14.7
6	France	CAC 40	3,804.78	3,136.02	-17.6
7	United Kingdom	FTSE 100	5,971.00	5,572.28	-6.7
8	Brazil	BOVESPA	69,304.81	56,754.08	-18.1
9	Italy	FTSE Italia All-Share	20,935.64	15,850.49	-24.3
10	Canada	S&P/TSX Composite	13,443.22	11,955.10	-11.1
11	India	BSE 30	20,025.42	15,454.92	-22.8
12	Russia	RTSI	1,770.28	1,381.87	-21.9
13	Australia	AOI	4,846.90	4,111.00	-15.2
14	Mexico	IPC	38,550.79	37,077.50	-3.8
15	South Korea	Seoul Composite	2,051.00	1,825.74	-11.0
16	Turkey	Istanbul SE National 100	66,004.48	51,266.62	-22.3
17	Indonesia	IHSG	3,703.51	3,821.99	3.2
18	Saudi Arabia	Tadawul All Share	6,620.75	6,386.04	-3.5
19	Argentina	MerVal	3,523.59	2,462.63	-30.1
20	South Africa	JSE All Share	32,118.89	31,985.70	-0.4
Sorted by GDP biggest				Average percentage	-14