Political CalculationsUnexpectedly Intriguing!Tracking the Number of Publicly-Traded Companies in the U.S. Stock MarketHow many U.S. companies have been publicly listed on the AMEX, NASDAQ and NYSE stock market exchanges over each of the past 40 years?The answer is graphically presented in the following chart!In the chart, we’ve also indicated the National Bureau of Economic Research’s official periods of recession in […]
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 16, 2015.Many Americans believe that the economic recovery has only recently picked up steam. But one group that is widely seen as benefiting in recent years are investors in the stock market. This is a point that former Sen. James Webb, D-Va. — a potential longshot candidate […]
Stock Market Getting Frothy ?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 28, 2014 – 08:04 PM GMTBy: Tony_Caldaro
The general market made a new bull market high on Tuesday at SPX 1968, dropped to 1945 by Thursday, and then rallied to 1961 to end the week. For the week the SPX/DOW were -0.35%, the NDX/NAZ were […]
What if the Stock Market Were a Bond?Here’s an update to one of my more off-the-wall ideas. I was curious to see what the historical performance of the stock market looks like, but in the form of a bond.Crazy? Let me explain.I took all of the historical market performance of the Wilshire 5000 (including dividends) and invented a hypothetical long-term […]
I have recently noted that I am concerned about the level of stock prices these days.The main reason for this concern is that every predictive valuation measure (emphasis on predictive) I look at suggests that stocks are drastically overvalued.As many smart analysts have pointed out, valuation is useless as a near-term market-timing tool: It tells you nothing about what stocks […]
