Record Number of Markets Now in the Red in Worst Year Since 1901

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(Bloomberg) -- 2018 is going down as the worst year for markets ever, by at least one measure.

A whopping 89 percent of assets have handed investors losses in U.S. dollar terms, more than any previous year going back more than a century. The metric comes courtesy of Deutsche Bank AG, whose macro strategists feature it as their chart of the week.