Barrick Gold has been the worst performer out of the gold miners this year, all of which have taken a beating.
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As an investment, equity markets there have underperformed the benchmark MSCI Emerging Markets Index this year and has been the worst performer out of all the top four emerging markets, meaning Russia, India and China.
As Bloomberg points out, BofA is the best performer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average for 2012, doubling since the start of the year.
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The Hollywood hype helped put 23-year-old Bebe, once just another obscure retailer, on the national map--and become a star performer on the FORBES GLOBAL list of the world's 300 best small companies this year.
In fact, IBM has gained 29% this year making it the best performer of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, while most its major competitors, including Oracle, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, have negative returns year-to-date.
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Other highlights during the three-week festival this May will include a world premiere celebrating the Britten Centenary Year, and the UK premiere of My Life After by Argentine playwright and performer Lola Arias.
Hill's second-best performer, Brazilian miner Yamana Gold, gained 100% over the course of the year.
Mentioning it to one of the other performers in The Caves, I was told that a performer last year was constantly being "goosed" by a ghost, so it's obviously not unknown.
With a decline of near 60%, AMD is the worst performer on the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index this year.
Following the ascent of alternative comedy in the late 1980s, the performer largely returned to his roots in stand-up, and was performing hundreds of shows a year as recently as 2008.
In an example of that, shares of international luxury-brand apparel and accessories retailer Michael Kors (KORS) is the top performer this year in the consumer cyclicals sector as tracked by Morningstar, with a 79% return.
Daniel Bedingfield's trio of nominations will cheer the London-based performer as he recovers from a car crash in New Zealand on New Year's Eve.
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