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Research tells us that the stock market tends to follow a presidential cycle. Stock prices go up during a presidential election year like 2012 by an average of about 8 percent.
In preparing economic forecasts a variety of information has been used in an attempt to increase the accuracy. Everything from macroeconomic, [2] microeconomic, [3] market data from the future, [4] machine-learning (artificial neural networks), [5] and human behavioral studies [6] have all been used to achieve better forecasts. Forecasts are ...
US Bear market of 2007–2009. The US bear market of 2007–2009 was a 17-month bear market that lasted from October 9, 2007 to March 9, 2009, during the 2007–2008 financial crisis. The S&P 500 lost approximately 50% of its value, but the duration of this bear market was just below average.
After opening lower, stocks quickly found their footing and registered solid gains for the day, with the S&P 500 and the narrower, price-weighted Dow Jones Industrial Average both rising by half a ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has returned 25% to investors so far this year and that's in large part to an expansion in P/E multiples. A year ago, the Dow traded for 14.5 times earnings and ...
The New York Stock Exchange reopened that day following a nearly four-and-a-half-month closure since July 30, 1914, and the Dow in fact rose 4.4% that day (from 71.42 to 74.56). However, the apparent decline was due to a later 1916 revision of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which retroactively adjusted the values following the closure but ...
In this video from Friday's Investor Beat, host Chris Hill and Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio and Inside Value analyst Ron Gross take a look back at the most important stories of 2013 for ...
English: This file gives a log-log plot of the "capital distribution curves" at ten year intervals (December 31 of 1929, 1939, ..., 2009), showing the (log) ranked market capitalizations as a fraction of the overall market capitalization plotted a function of their (log) market ranks. (Here the largest capitalization is defined to have rank 1 ...