The Many Ideas That Led To The Modern-Day Smart Phone: Chart

I came across an interesting chart while reading a research paper on innovation multipliers by Vanguard. The study notes that the smart phone is based on hundreds of ideas or patents that were invented before. This is surprising indeed. For the average user it looks the smart phone was invented from scratch just a few …

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Major World Epidemics and Global Stock Market Performance : Chart

Global equity markets have been relatively immune to past epidemics according to an article by Jeffrey Kleintop at Shcwab. The chart below shows the performance of the MSCI World Index mapped with all the epidemics since 1970 including Zika, Ebola, SARS from the recent past. Click to enlarge Source: Will the Coronavirus Outbreak Lead to a Market Breakdown?, …

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