BofAML: 20 Must-know Stats For Investors

Don't panic. For the concerned investor, here are 20 must-know stats to navigate your way through the investment universe.

$175tn: Current value of global financial assets, 2x the size of global GDP

26%: US tech and e-commerce as a percentage of US equity market capitalisation

7%: US Treasury market owned by China – the largest of any country

0.2%: The end-2020 consensus forecast for Japan's 10-year JGB yield

-100bps: Average annual "miss" by German bund yield forecasts over the past six years

$11tn: Current value of global negatively yielding bonds

2,747bps: The staggering drop in US CCC High Yield bond spreads since 2009

2018: The first year since 2000 that cash outperformed bonds and stocks

536: Number of zombie companies in the world, 13% of total

$5.5tn: Market cap of US tech sector, more than the entire market cap of emerging markets

1/3: Financials as a percentage market cap greater than 1/3 in Canada, Spain, Italy, Australia and Brazil

4%: US EPS growth forecast in 2019, down from 24% in 2018

3,498: The level at which the S&P 500 bull market becomes the biggest ever

68%: The rise in stock price needed for eurozone banks to reach old highs

67%: Percentage of the global equity market more than 20% away from its all-time high

17bps: The CDS of the "safest" company in the world, Nestlé (makers of KitKat)

2.5%: Dividend yield of global equity index, below its historic average of 2.9%

15x: Price-earnings ratio of the global equity index, below its 15.7x average

100: Corporate bond prices relative to commodity prices close to 100-year high

2002: Last time commodities were the best performing asset class (as they are in 2019)