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Markets Limp Into 2009 After a Bruising Year
VIKAS BAJAJ
NYT, December 31, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/business/economy/01markets.html
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. —John Kenneth Galbraith
Asian currencies continue to sell off vs the $ on the heels of the news yesterday that South Korea said they will look into hot money inflows stemming from the $ carry trade and the Bank of Indonesia said they are looking into the foreign buying of bills. This follows the news a few weeks ago that Taiwan was limiting foreign deposit holdings and Brazil was taxing foreign inflow transactions. As I mentioned yesterday, we may have reached a short term pain threshold in terms of $ weakness and foreign countries are fighting back as they certainly won't wait for...
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January 1st, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Nice! I’ve recently came up with an analysis I’d like to run and I’m hoping someone here can tell me where to get the data. I’d like to get daily, or at the least monthly, individual component’s stock price information for the S&P 500 or larger indices going back at least 20-30 years. I have a unique data mining test I’d like to run but no place I currently use can handle it or perform it. I need to download the data to my machine and massage it there. Anyone have a clue where I could get something like that? Free is good because while my curiousity is driving me nuts to run this, my thriftiness keeps it in check.
January 1st, 2009 at 1:52 pm
@rob
Have you tried going to the S&P website? Maybe MasterDATA.com has what you need, not sure how much of it is free though.
Only 2 of the DOW components are green in 2008, WMT and MCD.
The rest are DOW’n between 10% – 87%. Yahoo data… Jan 2 open to Dec 31 close, ex-dividends.
WMT +18.25%
MCD + 4.56%
JNJ – 10.11%
HD -15.15%
XOM -15.21%
PG -15.99%
KFT -15.51%
CVX -21.28%
PFE -22.19%
IBM -22.78%
VZ -22.78%
KO -26.33%
JPM -27.60%
HPQ -28.11%
DIS -29.80%
UTX -30.06%
T -31.34%
MMM -31.70%
CAT -38.44%
DD -42.70%
INTC -44.22%
MSFT -45.68%
MRK -47.72%
BA -51.27%
GE -56.33%
AXP -64.39%
BAC -66.10%
AA -69.12%
C -77.43%
GM -87.21%
January 1st, 2009 at 3:03 pm
And if we are looking ahead to the 2009 markets:
http://socializedlosses.blogspot.com/2009/01/update-of-mortgage-reset-graph.html
If mortgages were a big part of the problem in 2008, then 2009 may not be greatly better…
January 1st, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Doctor Copper says it all.