Stock Market Archive:
Emotional Investing
19 Nov 2009The second one from Vanguard lets you adjust when you leave and enter the market (based on market crashes/recoveries). Very cool.
Interactive Investing
18 Nov 2009Vanguard has several interesting interactive tools for visualizing investment decisions. The first concerns investment composition. Use the sliders at the bottom to choose between stocks, bonds, and cash – and to show how your investments would have performed over any date range since 1928. Click on the little graph icons in the upper right corner to view it as data or a line chart. Thanks to Diane Fitzer for pointing them out.
USA Today Economic Outlook Index (October edition)
In: Employment Finance Housing Interactive Stock Market US Economy
2 Nov 2009Updated October 28th. The best part is the lower chart showing the latest data for each of the 11 “leading indicators”.
Bailout Matrices
21 Sep 2009I question the value of “Bold/Weak” as an axis. but it’s still interesting to look at. Related CNNMoney article.
More interesting: Change in stock price one year later, versus level of federal assistance:
One Crisis Later
18 Sep 2009So many data releases focus (correctly) on percentage changes m-to-m or y-to-y; but once in a while it’s useful to look at the actual numbers. Below is the S&P, Employment, Foreclosures, and Bankruptcies.
Bank Bonuses
3 Aug 2009
Financial Reform
In: Finance Global Economy Source: FT Source: NYT Source: Ritholtz Stock Market US Economy
23 Jun 2009Summary of EU and US reforms. The related article is a very good read on the subject.
NYT’s version of just the USA (hat-tip to Ritholtz). Related article.
Bubbles 1994-2009
In: Bailout Finance Housing Reference Source: WSJ Stock Market US Economy
18 Jun 2009A good chart of US bubbles. The print version (p.A8, 6/18/09) had much better aesthetics. but the data are the same. Related article.
US Financial Oversight Proposals
18 Jun 2009
Regression to the Trend
14 Jun 2009Dshort’s June update of one of my favorite charts (inflation adjusted bullish version). Makes me wonder if we’re just going to re-inflate the bubble without any real correction.
The FT 500
In: Finance Global Economy Interactive Source: FT Stock Market US Economy
29 May 2009Interactive table of top 500 companies in the world (and for US/EU/UK/Japan) by market cap. You can sort any column, filter by sector, and drill down each company to see stats and historical rankings.
Dow Jones Quarterly Earnings
17 Apr 2009
Global Equity Performance Map
In: Emerging Markets Finance Global Economy Interactive Maps Source: FT Stock Market Updated regularly US Economy
14 Apr 2009Interactive map displays the performance of all the major global equity markets for today, or versus a selection of time periods (5days/10days/1month/etc up to a year). You can also click on any exchange to drill down to more information.
[Note: There is no direct link to the map (silly java), you have to click on the "Market Macromap" window on this page]
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