Product Description

Markets in Motion is a graphical overview of the economic conditions and events that have influenced the U.S. stock market since 1900. Decade by decade, you'll examine how different economic and policitcal environments can be directly correlated to stock market movements. Each decade features graphs displaying the performance of the Dow Jones Average, the Dow Jones price to dividend ratio, industrial production, money supply, consumer price index, T bill rate, and the Discount rate. Embedded on the graphs are short descriptions of important political, economic, and historical events. Use this information to reference similar environments today and gain an edge in determining the future direction of the market.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #238117 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Ring-bound
• 48 pages

From the Back Cover
Markets in Motion

The history of financial market performance in different economic and political environments provides clues on how the markets might behave in the future. Trends in inflation, industrial production, money supply, and interest rates can be directly correlated to stock market movements. As economic environments evolve, the ability to reference similar environments from the past give investors an edge in determining the future direction of financial markets.

Assembled by one of the world's top research firms, Markets in Motion provides an excellent perspective on how economic performance and historic events have impacted the stock market from 1900 to 2004. Each decade is brought to life through graphical representations of the stock market, interest rates, and economic indices, and short descriptions of important political, economic, and historical events.

Ned Davis Research, Inc.

Ned Davis Research, Inc. is an independent, institutional research company with global reach. Since 1980, Ned Davis Research, Inc. has provided institutional investors with a fusion of quantitative, technical, and fundamental investment research. Over the years, Ned Davis Research, Inc.'s professional staff has developed a reputation for adopting an unbiased, disciplined approach to in-depth financial analysis, which is supported by the firm's sophisticated analytic tools, commitment to data integrity, and unsurpassed customer support.

Clients receive some of the broadest and most unbiased historical market perspectives on "The Street." From asset allocation to sector and group work, individual stocks, economic, or quantitative research projects, Ned Davis Research, Inc. offers its clients unparalleled access to over 10,000 charts, reports, models, and studies, many of which are illustrated by the firm's hallmark rich graphics, which are reflected in this book.

Ned Davis Research, Inc.'s underlying collection of data is one of the largest, most consistent, and accurate in the industry, since the firm dedicates an entire department to scouring and scrubbing data from over 175 different data vendors.

With clients in over thirty countries, Ned Davis Research, Inc. serves over 5,000 users worldwide at investment firms, banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, hedge funds, pension and endowment funds, registered investment advisors, equity research departments, and other major financial institutions.

About the Author
Ned Davis Research Group is comprised of Ned Davis Research, Inc., located in Venice, Florida, and Davis, Mendel & Regenstein, Inc., an NASD institutional brokerage firm located in Atlanta, Georgia. Davis, Mendel & Regenstein is the exclusive provider of NDR's products and services.

Customer Reviews

No bad...
...but I wasn't particularly impressed. Investors Business Daily has nice wall charts with all this information. Much nicer. Cheers!