All eight indexes on our world watch list posted gains through September 3, 2019. The top performer is the iShares 20+ Treasury Bond ETF up 21.42%, followed by the SPDR Gold Trust with a gain of 20.84%, in third China's Shanghai SSE with an 18.86% gain and in fourth is France's CAC 40 with a gain of 16.56%. In fifth is our own S&P 500 with a gain of 15.79%. Coming in last is Hong Kong's Hang Seng with a gain of 1.58%. Over 52 weeks CDs at 2% have outperformed most of these investments.