2013 at a glace, a look back at 2013 most relevant events and at financial and non financial markets performance

1. 2013 at a glance
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North Korea’s Nuclear
3D Printers created a Pope Francis was elected Scotland’s Independence
€10 billion Cyprus
Tests
living labas Pope Benedict XVI
Referendum
Bailout was announced
On February, North
grown ear from collagen successor on 13 March.
On March, the Scottish on 25th March in return
Korea announced it had
and animal ear cell
government announced
for Cyprus agreeing to
conducted a nuclear test.
cultures.
an independence
close its second largest
South Korea military
referendum to be held on
bank, the Cyprus
security level was raised
September 2014.
Popular Bank.
to its readiness level.
Turkish Sping
Egyptian coup d’état
On May, a protest
on 3rd July removed the
against the urban
country's president
development of Taksim
Mohamed Morsi from
park in Istambul turned
power.
into massive protests and
strikes.
Iphone 5
was released on10th
September. 2 million
units were sold within
the first 24 hours.
Chemical weapons were
used in Syrian war on
14th September.
Merkel was re-elected
on 22th September
federal election,with
41.5% of the votes.
Fed starts tapering
Iran deals on nuclear
Twitter IPO
Nelson Mandela dies
On its last meeting this
power
with shares at $26
Former president of
year, the central bank
On November, world’s
each, being one of the
South Africa and
started easing its massive
largest technology initial major powers and Iran
anti- apartheid
bond buying program in
reached an agreement to
public offerings ever.
revolutionary activist
signal of bank’s
freeze Iran’s nuclear
died on December after a
confidence in economy.
plan in exchange of
long illness.
easing the sanctions
US Shutdown
From 1st to 16th
October, there was a
temporary halt on
government services in
the US.
Financial and non-financial markets performance
GLOBAL…
SMALL CAP
PRECIOUS METALS
FRONTIER MARKETS
GLOBAL…
EMERGING MARKETS
DEVELOPED…
DEVELOPED…
-5%
GLOBAL
COMMODITIES
EMERGING…
5%
15%
25%
-8%
-3%
2%
7%
-40%
-30%
USDJPY
EUROZONE HOUSE
PRICES
US HOUSE PRICES
0%
8%
13%
EVENT DRIVEN
STRATEGIES
EURUSD
-10%
RELATIVE VALUE
ARBITRAGE…
EMERGING
CURRENCIES VS USD
-21%
JAPAN HOUSE
PRICES
-20%
OPPORTUNITY
STRATEGIES
-11%
-1%
-3%
2%
7%
12%
-2%
3%
All assets performances are based on broad/representative indexes. Performance is computed on December 31st at 9:00am GMT+1