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- Security Prices:1970-1987 Class or Item 1970 1975 1980 1985 1987
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- Bond prices ($s per $100 bond):
- Standard & Poor's:Municipal(2) 72.3 68.9 57.4 53.0 62.7
- Dow Jones and Co., Inc:(3)
- Yearly high 69.7 69.7 76.6 83.7 95.5
- Yearly low 64.4 66.2 61.0 72.3 81.3
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- Stock prices:
- Standard & Poor's common
- index (500 stocks)
- (1941-43=10)(4) 83.2 86.2 118.7 186.8 268.8
- Industrial 91.3 96.6 134.5 207.8 330.5
- N.Y. Stock Exchange common
- stock index
- (Dec. 31, 1965=50):
- Composite 45.7 45.7 68.1 108.1 161.7
- Yearly high(5) 52.4 51.2 81.0 121.9 188.0
- Yearly low(5) 37.7 37.1 55.3 94.6 125.9
- Industrial 48.0 50.5 78.6 123.8 195.3
- Transportation 32.1 31.1 60.5 104.1 140.4
- Utility 37.2 31.5 37.3 56.8 74.3
- Finance 54.6 47.1 64.3 114.2 146.5
- American Stock Exchange
- Market Value Index (Aug.3,
- 1973=50) 48.3 41.6 150.6 229.1 316.4
- NASDAQ OTC composite(6) (NA) 77.6 203.3 324.9 402.9
- Industrial (NA) 81.0 261.4 330.2 422.9
- Insurance (NA) 80.9 166.8 382.1 425.5
- Banks (NA) 72.4 118.4 349.4 465.1
- Dow Jones and Co., Inc.,
- total (65 stocks)(1,7) 243.9 247.3 328.2 541.6 849.5
- Industrial (30 stocks) 753.2 802.8 891.4 1,328.2 2,276.0
- Transportation (20 stocks) 152.4 163.4 307.2 645.1 929.2
- Public utility (15 stocks) 108.8 79.8 110.4 157.6 201.7
- Wilshire 5000 equity index(8)
- (Dec. 31, 1980=1404.596) (9)830.3 763.8 1,220.7 1,923.8 2,843.7
- Standard & Poor's:
- Dividend-price ratio
- (percent) 3.83 4.31 5.26 4.25 3.08
- Earnings-price ratio
- (percent) 6.45 9.14 12.66 8.12 5.48
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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 dis-
- continued. 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,
- D.C. 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 securi-
- ties 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.