With the first round of French elections only one week away, it is important to remember that the results could have a profound effect on investors. Currently, four of the eleven candidates could read more..

Global Financial Data has added 320 Total Return Series to its GFD Indices. These series cover over 50 countries and include returns to stocks, bonds and bills. These indices use data already availabl... read more..

The New York Stock Exchange is celebrating a double anniversary this year. It is 225 years since the Buttonwood Agreement was signed on May 17, 1792 by 24 brokers, allowing direct trading and sett read more..

One of the more interesting canal stocks that traded in Britain during the 1800s was the Loughborough Canal Navigation Co. which incorporated in 1776. This was a small canal, only 9.25 miles in l read more..

      Global Financial Data has extended the histories for its corporate and muni bond indices. This includes not only the series covering the yields on corporate and municipal read more..

Fifteen years later, in 1925, it had doubled again to 120, and just 5 years after that, had teetered on the cusp of 300 by April of 1930, right before it took a nose dive. In 2 short years, by read more..

One of the goals of the US Stocks Database and the UK Stocks Database is to eliminate the survivorship bias and the exchange bias that all other stock databases suffer from. Survivorship bias occ read more..

Global Financial Data has put together a data series covering seven centuries of real estate prices. The series covers real estate costs in Great Britain from 1290 to the current day. How did we read more..

Donald Trump was elected president promising to use protectionist measures, if necessary, to bring jobs back to America. Economists warn that raising tariffs reduces trade and hurts the economy. read more..

Donald Trump’s inauguration speech vowed to return protectionism in an effort to not only bolster employment, but to recapture positions that have migrated overseas. His initial defense against t read more..

Today, the future of energy prices is as uncertain as ever. Whereas in the 1970s, there was a fear that the supply of oil could decline dramatically, causing future oil prices to rise, fracking a read more..

  In our annual review of global stock markets, we noticed that a relatively large number of countries put in what could be a bear market bottom in 2016. If this is true, investors should e read more..