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- Security Prices: 1970 - 1988[Annual averages of monthly figures, except as noted.]Class or Item 1970 1975 1980 1985 1989 1990
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- Bond prices
- ($s per $100 bond):
- Standard & Poor's
- Municipal(2) 72.3 68.9 57.4 53.0 66.1 66.0
- Dow Jones and Co.,
- Inc.(3)
- Yearly high 69.7 69.7 76.6 83.7 94.2 (NA)
- Yearly low 64.4 66.2 61.0 72.3 87.4 (NA)
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- Stock prices:
- Standard & Poor's
- Common index
- (500 stocks)
- (1941-43=10)(4) 83.2 86.2 118.7 186.8 323.1 334.6
- Industrial 91.3 96.6 134.5 207.8 392.9 (NA)
- N.Y. Stock Exchange
- common stock index
- (Dec. 31, 1965=50):
- Composite 45.7 45.7 68.1 108.1 180.1 183.5
- Yearly high(5) 52.4 51.2 81.0 121.9 199.3 (NA)
- Yearly low(5) 37.7 37.1 55.3 94.6 155.0 (NA)
- Industrial 48.0 50.5 78.6 123.8 228.0 225.8
- Transportation 32.1 31.1 60.5 104.1 174.9 158.6
- Utility 37.2 31.5 37.3 56.8 94.3 90.6
- Finance 54.6 47.1 64.3 114.2 162.0 133.2
- American Stock
- Exchange Market
- Value Index
- (Aug.3, 1973=50) 48.3 41.6 150.6 229.1 356.7 338.4
- NASDAQ OTC
- composite(6) (NA) 77.6 203.3 324.9 454.8 (NA)
- Industrial (NA) 81.0 261.4 330.2 448.0 (NA)
- Insurance (NA) 80.9 166.8 382.1 546.0 (NA)
- Banks (NA) 72.4 118.4 349.4 391.0 (NA)
- Dow Jones and Co.,
- Inc., total
- (65 stocks)(1,7) 243.9 247.3 328.2 541.6 966.9 965.2
- Industrial
- (30 stocks) 753.2 802.8 891.4 1,328.2 2,508.9 2,678.9
- Transportation
- (20 stocks) 152.4 163.4 307.2 645.1 1,194.3 1,040.2
- Public utility
- (15 stocks) 108.8 79.8 110.4 157.6 205.7 211.5
- Wilshire 5000
- equity index(8)
- (Dec. 31, 1980=
- 1404.596) (9)830.3 763.8 1,220.7 1,923.8 3,172.6 (NA)
- Standard & Poor's:
- Dividend-price
- ratio (percent) 3.83 4.31 5.26 4.25 3.45 3.61
- Earnings-price
- ratio (percent) 6.45 9.14 12.66 8.12 7.41 (NA)
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-
- NA=Not available.
- 1. Source:U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
- 2. Derived from average yields on basis of assumed 4%, 20-year
- bond; Wednesday closing prices.
- 3. Source:Dow Jones & Co., Inc., New York, NY. Effective June
- 30, 1976, the Dow Jones averages of 20 income railroad bonds
- were discontinued. With the dropping of the rail averages
- which had been part of the Dow-Jones 40-bond average. The
- 40-bond average became a 20-bond average consisting of 10
- utility bonds and 10 industrial bonds.
- 4. Effective July 1976, the index includes 400 industrial stocks
- (formerly 425), 20 transportation (formerly 15 rail), 40
- public utility (formerly 60), and 40 financial stocks, not
- previously covered.
- 5. Source:New York Stock Exchange, Inc., New York, NY.
- 6. Source:National Association of Securities Dealers, Washington,
- DC. OTC=over-the-counter.
- 7. Based on stocks listed in the New York Stock Exchange.
- 8. Represents return on the market value of all common equity
- securities for which daily pricing is available. For 1970-
- 1975 annual average of end of month figures, thereafter,
- annual average of daily figures. Source:Wilshire Associates,
- Santa Monica, CA.
- 9. Represents Dec. 31, 1970.
-
- Source:Except as noted, Board of Governors of the Federal
- Reserve System.
-