Charts & Data

Charts of Major Stock Indices
US Long Term	Dow Industrials, S&P500, NASDAQ Comp Index, Dow Utilities, Russell 2000 over 30 years
US Recent	Dow Industrials, S&P500, NASDAQ with 50 & 200-day moving averages over 10 months
High Tech	NASDAQ 100, Morgan Stanley HiTech Index, Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) with 50 and 200-day moving averages
High-Tech Perform	Morgan Stanley Hi-Tech Index vs. S&P500 and curve showing Relative Strength (MS Hi-Tech/S&P500)
Big- vs. Small Cap	S&P100 vs. Russell 2000 Small Cap Index with 200-day moving averages and curve showing Relative Strength (S&P100/R2000)

Charts of Interest Rates and Yields
Interest Rates Short-Term	The past 30 months in rates and yields: 30-yr T-Bond, 91-day T-Bill, Fed Discount, Fed Funds Target, Prime Rate and FHLMC 30-yr Mortgage Rate
Interest Rates Long-Term	The past 30 years in rates: 30-yr T-Bond, 91-day T-Bill, Fed Discount, Prime Rate
Fed Watch	Real Fed Funds Target, 12-month change in M2 measure of money supply and free reserves in the banking system over the past seven years
Fed Funds Target	The Fed Funds Target Rate, both nominal and real
Yield Curve	US Treasury Yield Curve: end of week, 5 weeks ago, 1 year ago

Charts of Nominal v. Real Interest Rates
Nominal vs. Real Market Rates	30 years of nominal interest rates (market) compared to real rates (inflation adjusted) for the 30-yr T-Bond and 91-day T-Bill. The 12-month change in the Consumer Price Index is used as the inflation rate
Real Yields: Stocks vs. Treasuries	A comparison of real yields: S&P 500 dividends and earnings, the 30-year T-Bond and 91-day T-Bill over 30 years
Real Yields: S&P500 Divs & Erngs	A comparison of nominal and real yields on S&P 500 dividends and earnings over 30 years
Fed Funds Target	The Fed Funds Target Rate, both nominal and real

Charts of Economic Data
All may be found on our Economic Data page

Charts of Commodity Prices
Important Commodities	Cash Prices of Gold, Oil, Copper, scrap Steel, Nickel and Aluminum over the past five years
CRB Commodity Price Indices	3 commodity price indices: Bridge-CRB Futures Index, Raw Industrials SubIndex and Spot Price Index

Charts of Inflation
Murphy's Index	John Murphy's Inflation Index: the ratio of the CRB Futures Index to T-Bond Futures prices
Mo'ly Inflation Measurements	Indicated by 12-month changes of the CPI, PPI and "Core" rates for both (which exclude volatile food & energy components).
Qtrly Inflation Measurements	GDP Implicit Deflator and Personal Consumption Expenditure Price Deflator.
Inflation vs. Stocks	30 years of the Inflation Rate compared to the S&P 500 Stock Index on the same chart. Rapidly increasing inflation has been poison for the stock market

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