by Bryan Taylor | May 31, 2018 | Blog, Insights
Global Financial Data has put together several data series that enable us to track the capitalization of the world’s major stock markets from 1900 to 2018. With this data, we have calculated the global market capitalization of stock markets since 1900 and we have...
by Bryan Taylor | May 24, 2018 | Blog
Global Financial Data has made major revisions to three of its popular indices, the Dow Jones Transport Average, the S&P 500 Composite and the S&P 500 Composite Total Return Index. Global Financial Data has recently calculated its own GFD Index for Railroad...
by Bryan Taylor | May 23, 2018 | Blog
The Amsterdam Stock Exchange is the oldest in the world. It was established in 1602 by the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) to aide in the trading of shares in the company. Amsterdam was the first exchange to begin trading securities and...
by Bryan Taylor | May 22, 2018 | Blog, Insights
Global Financial Data has calculated the market cap of the United States stock market from 1791 until 2018. These calculations include not only the New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, but regional exchanges, such as Philadelphia and Boston and...
by Bryan Taylor | May 21, 2018 | Blog
Global Financial Data has added over 1200 new series on debt from the BIS. These series track the outstanding debt by country and category. All data are quarterly and will be updated on a regular basis. The data covers 138 countries and breaks the data down by several...