Topic: Dow Jones Industrial Average

Fact And Comment

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission garnered lots of headlines in January, when it grilled big bank CEOs about their role in causing our economic troubles. Angelides and his colleagues have been compared with the Pecora hearings of the early 1930s, whose findings ...
In this edition of Twin Peaks we continue to monitor the unfolding developments in the Global Financial Crises (yes it is still with us) and the developments of the post Dec 1989 crises in Japan as expressed in the Dow and the ...
Is the stock market setting up for a sharp decline (a.k.a. The stupendous disconnect between a V-shaped euphoric market and a disintegrating real economy will be settled sooner or later.. If we look at the past decade in the Dow, the steep ...
The aught years have been a strange, exciting, and scary time for many businesses. In the 2000?s business experienced the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. The last ten years have brought scandals (Madoff, Enron), booms and busts (dot coms, ...
Decade in Review: When trading reopens Sept. 17, the Dow Jones industrial average plunges 684.81 points.DecemberOn Dec. 2, Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, to that point the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. By 2009, the exchange rate will value the ...

The Great Depression Version 2008.10?

Comparing charts from 1929 and 2008 to determine a depressionAre we living in an era of Depression? DIA, Stock Forum), as well as the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual, General Motors, and the forced nationalization of AIG (NYSE: AIG, Stock Forum), ...

The Law of Diminishing Returns

THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE'S NEW RALLY HIGH last week is giving at least some investors renewed hope that they may soon be able to recover the losses they incurred during the 2007-2009 bear market.. If the bull market that began last ...
This year it's clearly California's 49.3% budget gap and 16.2% drop in state revenue that has them leading a list of lemming states to their doom. Over 1M state and municipal employees may be getting their last checks this Christmas as 9 ...
We remain in the " The interesting thing about this most recent move back to 10,000 on the Dow is that the last time the DJIA closed above 10,000 before last week was on October 22nd at 10,081 or approximately -0.6% below ...
The Dow is up 100 points since 10pm in the futures (as of 7:30 am), having fallen almost 100 points between Friday's close and Sunday night as early Asian trading sold the markets off heavily. Though Mr. Bernanke didn't specifically set out ...