Stock Market Archive:

I don’t post many editorials, but I love Matt Taibbi’s gonzo journalism style and his insights about cracks in the financial system.

image

flattr this!

The FT has an audio annotated slideshow explaining the proposal.
(note, to get around FT’s registration try this link)

image

flattr this!

The best part is the lower chart showing the latest data for each of the 11 “leading indicators”. Updated 1/27/09.

image

flattr this!

A very nice treemap presentation — you can drill down by year and company level. Clicking on a company box will bring up their own comments on compensation policies. Well done WSJ!

image

flattr this!

The overlapping memberships of 15 Fortune 500 board members. (From 2008) The site allows construction of all kinds of people-maps (bands, funerals, etc).

image

flattr this!

2008 and 2009 by sector, and compared to 2007 peaks.

image

flattr this!

An interactive look at 10 years of global indices, bonds, interest rates, commodities, and a few key stocks.

image

flattr this!

The second one from Vanguard lets you adjust when you leave and enter the market (based on market crashes/recoveries). Very cool.

image

flattr this!

Vanguard 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.

 

image

image

image

flattr this!

Updated October 28th. The best part is the lower chart showing the latest data for each of the 11 “leading indicators”.

image

flattr this!

I question the value of “Bold/Weak” as an axis. but it’s still interesting to look at. Related CNNMoney article.

image

More interesting: Change in stock price one year later, versus level of federal assistance:

image

flattr this!

So 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.

image

flattr this!



blog advertising
is good for you

What is Chart Porn?

An addictive collection of beautiful charts, graphs, maps, and interactive data visualization toys -- on topics from around the world.

  • Mike: My major quibble is the video flips between income and wealth as if they're interchangeable. You can [...]
  • David: Who else wants to tell the Copyright Alert System people to go fuck themselves? [...]
  • Carl: Very interesting video. The angle that is never shown in videos and graphs like these is the change [...]
  • Maria Droujkova: What is lacking: - The percentage of vaccinated (low for some of listed diseases) - The incidence [...]
  • escort madrid: Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs about the vaccine data, for those people it is really [...]