From Bitcoin to Belize, Here Are Best and Worst Assets of 2017
- It was a great year for copper, Ukrainian stocks, palladium
- Uzbekistan’s currency, Venezuelan bonds and sugar not so much
Mercer's Watson: Bitcoin Is a Bubble That Will Collapse
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It was a great year to hold bitcoin, but a bad time to have been invested in the Uzbek soum.
As 2017 winds to a close, a look at the winners and losers around the globe shows that, broadly speaking, the riskiest assets performed well, with bullish sentiment on display in stocks, emerging-market sovereigns and corporate debt. Securities generally seen as the safest and least volatile bets -- think Japanese government bonds -- trailed behind.