{"id":657659,"date":"2013-05-13T12:20:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T16:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=514793"},"modified":"2013-05-13T12:20:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T16:20:47","slug":"as-nasdaq-rallies-smartphone-sector-has-been-a-crushing-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/657659","title":{"rendered":"As NASDAQ rallies, smartphone sector has been a crushing disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/13\/nasdaq-smartphone-market-comparison\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/bgr-best-smartphones-2012.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"NASDAQ Smartphone Market Comparison\" title=\"NASDAQ Smartphone Market Comparison\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Over the last 12 months, the NASDAQ has moved up by 17%, a respectable performance. However, most of the best-known hedge funds in the world continue<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2013-04-22\/complete-hedge-fund-performance-update\"> lagging both NASDAQ and the broader S&amp;P index woefully<\/a>. The smartest investors in the world are having trouble matching index funds in both 2012 and 2013. Probably the biggest reason for this is the way smartphone-related stocks have underperformed. This was something that was extremely difficult to predict in early 2012. Not only has <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> tanked over the past year but other hedge fund darlings have also lagged behind NASDAQ: Omnivision, the camera module champion, is down 16% in a year and Qualcomm, the key phone chip vendor, is up by only 4%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/13\/nasdaq-smartphone-market-comparison\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/CZ-kL3vLNaM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last 12 months, the NASDAQ has moved up by 17%, a respectable performance. However, most of the best-known hedge funds in the world continue lagging both NASDAQ and the broader S&amp;P index woefully. The smartest investors in the world are having trouble matching index funds in both 2012 and 2013. Probably the biggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}