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The NYSE Composite outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq Composite, and the S&P 500 in 2004, 2005, and 2006 [3] and closed above the 10,000 level for the first time on June 1, 2007. The NYSE Composite set a closing high of 10,311.61 on October 31, 2007, but failed to pass the intra-day high of 10,387.17 it reached in trading ...
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 ...
When back-tested to 1970, the Buffett Indicator has averaged a reading of 85%.This is to say the total market cap of all U.S. stocks has averaged 0.85 times as much as U.S. GDP over the last 55 years.
When it was first published in the mid-1880s, the index stood at a level of 62.76. It reached a peak of 78.38 during the summer of 1890, but reached its all-time low of 28.48 in the summer of 1896 during the Panic of 1896. Many of the biggest percentage price moves in the Dow occurred early in its history, as the nascent industrial economy matured.
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The Standard and Poor's 500, or simply the S&P 500, [5] is a stock market index tracking the stock performance of 500 of the largest companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. It is one of the most commonly followed equity indices and includes approximately 80% of the total market capitalization of U.S. public companies, with an ...
It was the second stock market hiccup in less than a week after a glitch last Thursday affected the dissemination of real-time data for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones indexes for over an hour.
It would take almost seven years before it finally closed above 1,000 for the first time on Tuesday, November 14, 1972. 9 This was the Dow's close at the peak on January 11, 1973, before the 1973–74 stock market crash. 10 This was the Dow's close at the peak of August 25, 1987 before the Black Monday stock market crash.