Apple(AAPL) stock reached a peak of $705.07 earlier this year and became the most valuable company in the world. Yesterday it closed at $529.69 and the market capitalization stands at $498.3 billion. Japan’s Sony Corp’s (SNE) stock trading in Tokyo reached the lowest price since 1980, a year after the company introduced Walkman. Sony’s market capitalization …
Click to enlarge Source: Pharmaceutical Executive
Interesting table showing the Major U.S. and Foreign Futures Exchanges: Click to enlarge Source: Derivatives and Risk Management in the Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Electricity Industries, Energy Information Administration, Oct 2002
The long-term return charts of many equity markets is not easy to find online. This is especially true in the case of frontier and emerging markets. The following charts show the long-term performance of major equity indices in Asia. The risks with investing in emerging markets is confirmed by dramatic rise and falls of stock …
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The historical P/E ratio of the S&P 500 1926 to 2009 is shown below: Click to enlarge The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio was at 10.22 in the beginning of 1926 and reached 20.61 in 2009—an average increase of 0.84% per year. The highest P/E ratio was 136.50, recorded during the bull market in 1932, …
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