The Decade in Markets

By Barry Ritholtz - December 22nd, 2009, 11:30AM

Nice interactive graphic of the last decade from the FT showing various world markets — stocks, bonds, commodities — in the context of the major global events:

click through for interactive chart

Chart courtesy of FT

Hat tip Simon!

Source:
The decade in markets
Johanna Kassel and Cleve Jones
FT, December 21 2009 17:07 | Last updated: December 21 2009 17:07

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fee44b50-ee52-11de-944c-00144feab49a.html

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Category: Markets, Technical Analysis.

Comments

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5 Responses to “The Decade in Markets”

ashpelham2 Says:
December 22nd, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Man, that is one disgustingly volatile chart. Here’s a funny thought for you: I started investing with real money in late 1998. I had been in my job post-college for 1 year, and thought 1999 was going to be indicative of what I had to look forward to in the New Economy. Lost my butt in 2000. Lost it more in 2001. Stayed out of equities for the most part until 2005, then stayed throughout the downturn this time.

I’ve benefited from generous employer contributions, and my own discipline to save, but the market has really been ugly to me. So how am I invested now? Heavy in equities, no doubt!
VennData Says:
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:12 pm
There’s no more disconnect between stocks and bonds. Stocks were right, Bonds were wrong.

Also, MSNBC was right, Fox News was wrong.

Obama right, Bush supporters …not so much.

The second GOP experiement in a generation with Supply Side tax cuts for the rich that “pay for themselves” coupled with willly-nilly de-regulation failed miserably as it did when they led to Reagan’s S&L debacle and his massive debts (where were you then tea-baggers?)

This is the death of Supply Side nonsense and their “Austrian” theorizers. See you Ayn Rand, don’t let the gold bar hit you on the way out.
Marcus Aurelius Says:
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Funny stuff, Venn.
Transor Z Says:
December 22nd, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Holy shit:

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a $290 million judgment against Microsoft Corp. and issued an injunction that will prevent the sale of its popular Word software.
The court injunction is set to go into effect Jan. 11. Microsoft has said such a bar would prohibit the sale of all currently available versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/12/22/court_microsoft_violated_patent_cant_sell_word/
tagyoureit Says:
December 22nd, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Key Stocks – US (‘What if I invested’) – Apple +650% since ’99 (or 2004 if you like). I find this crazy, they are essentially a toy manufacturer. I wonder if Alcoa (-68%) supplies the aluminum used to make their unibody macbook? I wonder if GE (-68%) has or had some role in the semiconductor’s used in the iPod?

Don’t get me wrong, I think the iPod is cool. Hours of music and video on a tiny device is handy. But, it doesn’t make any of the content better. Now, instead of a box of 100 7″ vinyl records of early ninety’s hardcore cluttering up your basement, you have a pile of electrons using up memory. Either way, you have a pile of crap that you may or may not use…

LOL, joke is on me, I have both the box o’ crap and the stuffed iPod. Except, I can’t sell the junk on my iPod at the next garage sale…