Let's hear to the PIGS

As you may know PIGS is an acronym of Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain. Some economist cluster this mediterranean countries since their economies are quite similar and all less developed when compared with top EU countries.
From that point of view we can analyse them as the "emerging economies" within the EU and therefore expect them to be leaders when it comes to trend changes ( they will be the first to rally once a downtrend is over and the first to drop when an uptrend is over).
In that sense I gathered these graphs to show their behavior compared to SPX.

See how they led at 2003.





and now in 2009... might it be the way.....?