GFD has added 3000 new data sets to the GFDatabase which calculate the Annual Percentage Change. These files focus on economic data for which users are more concerned about the rate of change tha read more..

The data are over-the-counter quotes and provide the Bid, Ask and Average of the Bid and the Ask for each company. Global Financial Data has added price data on over 600 U.S. insurance companies co... read more..

The United States stock market has been in bull-market mode for six years now, and some fear the stock market may be running out of steam. By our count, there have been 25 bear markets in the United read more..

Global Financial Data has added almost 300 new stock and commodity indices for users of the Global Financial Database. The new indices expand GFD’s coverage of equities into new areas. GFD has adde read more..

The United States stock market has been in bull-market mode for six years now, and some fear the stock market may be running out of steam. By our count, there have been 25 bear markets in the United read more..

Global Financial Data has stock histories for over 50,000 securities. Some of these stocks cover centuries of data; others are quite short, lasting only a few months or even a few days. One of the m read more..

Global Financial Data has added new graphing tools to its website to enhance our customers’ ability to study our extensive database. The new graphing tools make it easier to visualize our data. In a read more..

September 18, 2014, Scotland will vote on whether to remain part of the United Kingdom or leave. If Scotland were to vote for independence, they would have to decide whether to have a separate currenc... read more..

In a previous blog, I documented the worst hyperinflation in history, which was suffered by Hungary in 1946. When Hungary finally converted from the Pengo to the Forint, it took 400,000 Quadrillion read more..

Ivar Kreuger was a financial genius, for better or for worse. Kreuger was an industrial and financial genius who sought complete control over the operations of his global match conglomerate. At th read more..

The National Bureau of Economic Research was founded in 1920 as a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The ... read more..

This week marks the hundredth anniversary of the beginning of World War I. On June 28, 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. This event led to a month of failed di read more..

An original member of the 12 stocks that made up the original Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896 ceased to exist last month, though few people noticed. General Electric Co. is the only one of t read more..

  Global Financial Data has added 40 CAPE Ratios to its database, primarily for OECD countries. The CAPE Ratio is the cyclically-adjusted price-to-earnings ratio, also known as the Sh read more..

  Global Financial Data has added 20,000 files covering 40 developed and developing OECD countries. Over 2000 macroeconomic files relating to GDP, the balance of payments, and imports read more..

NO EXCHANGE BIAS, NO SURVIVORSHIP BIAS Global Financial Data now offers historical price data on common stocks for all stock exchanges in the United States since 1915. No other company provides suc read more..

It was 100 years ago, in 1914, that the Gold Standard died. When World War I began, most countries went off the Gold Standard and attempts to return to a Gold Standard since have all failed. Some read more..

  If you were to ask most people which country suffered the worst inflation in history, they would answer Germany, since Germany’s hyperinflation after World War I is probably the most famous. read more..

  Global Financial Data is happy to announce that it has added over 1600 new exchange rate files to the GFDatabase, doubling the number of exchange rate files within the database. All of the read more..

Global Financial Data has updated a number of its long-term government bond series. These updates include both the 10-year Benchmark Bond files as well as the Total Return Series for Government B read more..

Global Financial Data is pleased to announce its partnership with Updata to provide its long-term, historical data series through their software platform. Updata is the leader in providing tools read more..

  Global Financial Data has eliminated the exchange bias. Other stock databases limit themselves to providing data from the national exchanges, ignoring thousands of local companies that inves read more..

  Confederate bonds are now prized by collectors of Confederate memorabilia. Since the bonds were never redeemed, thousands of these remnants of the South still exist for anyone to own. One o read more..

  Which country has the dubious distinction of suffering the worst bear market in history? To answer this question, we ignore countries where the government closed down the stock exchange, leavi read more..

  One of the long-term components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been IBM. The company was originally added to the Dow Jones Industrials on March 26, 1932 in a reshuffle involving eig read more..

  Today Pepsi is one of the strongest brands in the world with a capitalization of nearly $125 billion. But this wasn’t always the case. It may be hard to believe, but Pepsi was on the verge o read more..

    Yields on United States 10-year bonds rose above 3% at the beginning of January. The yield on the 10-year had reached its lowest point in history in July 2012 at 1.43% as a result of read more..

  So far in 2014, emerging markets have significantly underperformed Developed Markets. Turkey has been forced to raise their interest rates dramatically to defend the Lira while Argentina saw read more..

  Global Financial Data is proud to announce the addition of almost 40,000 files that our subscribers can now access. The source of the data is the World Bank, which has made their data archiv read more..

  Yields on United States 10-year bonds passed the 3% in January. The yield on the 10-year had reached its lowest point in history in 2012 at 1.43% as a result of the Fed’s policy of Quantit read more..