Archive for the 'Financial markets' Category

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Compare 12 Bear Markets (S&P 500) Aug 1929 – Oct 2008

Published on October 26, 2008 in Financial markets, Line Graph, S&P 500 and United States. Closed

Screenshot from a New York Times Interactive Graphic How This Bear Market Compares by Amanda Cox, Xaquín G.V. and David Leonhardt that shows the percentage drop in the S&P 500 during the last 12 bear markets. The current market drop is highlighted in red, while the drop after 1929 is highlighted in orange.

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Gasoline Inflation magnifying glass

[tags]United States, S&P 500, Bear Markets[/tags]

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Money Supply Ratio: Jan 1958 – Sep 2008

Published on October 22, 2008 in Federal Reserve, Financial markets, Line Graph and United States. 1 Comment

A graph suggested by a reader, Chuck Beach, pointing out the historical high of the ratio of two measurements of the Money Supply M2/M1

M1 = is the narrowest measurement of the amount of money in circulation and money held in current (checking) accounts.

M2 = M1 plus money held in savings account or deposit which are not immediately available.

Money Supply Ratio (M2/M1)

Data from the Federal Reserve

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Credit Swaps Insurance Market: 2000-2007

Published on October 19, 2008 in Financial markets, Line Graph and United States. 1 Comment

From a NY Times article on Credit Swaps from February 2008. It is worth reading for its primer on credit swaps and how it predicts the events of the current credit crisis.

Interest Rates and Fed Funds

[tags]Credit Swaps[/tags]

Popularity: 2% [?]

Difference between US 3-Month T-bills vs Fed Funds: 1956-2008

Published on October 6, 2008 in Area Graph, Federal Reserve, Financial markets, Interest Rates and United States. 3 Comments

I plotted the historical spread between Effective Fed Funds rate and US 3-Month T-bills back to 1956 using the weekly average. This a companion graph to Anatomy of a Financial Crisis: September 2008

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Interest Rates and Fed Funds magnifying glass

Data from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

[tags]United States, Interest Rate, Fed Funds[/tags]

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Anatomy of a Financial Crisis: September 2008

Published on October 2, 2008 in Federal Reserve, Financial markets, Interest Rates, Line Graph and United States. 1 Comment

I have plotted the US 3-Month T-bills: Secondary Market rate (green line) vs the Effective Fed Funds rates (orange) for Sept 2008. The major events of the recent financial crisis have been included.

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Interest Rates and Fed Funds magnifying glass

Data from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

[tags]United States, Interest Rate[/tags]

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Google Finance vs Yahoo Finance

Published on June 18, 2006 in Bar Chart, Critiques and Commentary, Financial markets and Line Graph. Closed

While Yahoo is still my main source for financial data especially when I need historical numbers, I did like the interactive graph Google developed.

Google Finance Graph

It is little jerky when the graph is updating, but the interaction builds upon Google Map’s click and drag behavior and integrates the news into the graph which is very helpful.

[tags] Google Finance [/tags]

Popularity: 2% [?]