Performance of Asset Classes and Stocks in 2011

The calendar flips to 2012 and we finally say good bye to 2011. There have been many year-end commentaries around the blogosphere highlighting that the S&P 500 was almost exactly unchanged on the year (dshort), and that there were a few stocks that performed exceptionally (stocktradingtogo). I want to look a little wider by presenting a snapshot of how various asset classes performed and delve a little deeper by looking at how individual stocks behind the indexes performed.