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My ceaseless fondness for our Layered Charts feature is well known, and I took the time this weekend to put together a number of them to share with you. They all pretty much say the same thing in one way or another: one important financial instrument is going to drag down another one which hasn’t quite received the memo yet. Here we go……….
Just like the assumption in the 1980s was that videotape would kill movie theatres, there was likewise a belief in the early 2000s that digital music (particularly Napster) would kill the music industry. Nope! People change, but basic needs do not.
I read an interesting paragraph on Friday night (click for easier reading):
I decided to fire up a few charts and test that theory, because intuitively it makes a lot of sense. I therefore did percentage performance charts of three major, but differently-constructed, indexes – – the S&P 500, the NASDAQ 100, and the Russell 2000. Below, for instance, is this trio during a broadly healthy market period around 2004-2005. The indexes aren’t identical, of course, but on the whole they are moving with each other, with little in the way of meaningful variance.
(more…)I recently watched a movie that I hadn’t seen in years called Breaking Away, which was a 1979 production about a kid in Indiana who was in love with biking and won in one of those “against all odds” type races. I was really into biking when I was young, so it was a favorite film of mine, and nice to re-visit.
