Interesting Numbers
Posted by Daniel on the 15th of March, 2009 at 2:05 pm under Economics.Tags: djia • dow jones
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I found this interesting… Numbers for the Dow Jones Industrial Average over a couple of periods in our nation’s recent past.
September 10th, 2001 close: 9,605.51
September 21st, 2001 close (lowest before recovery): 8,235.81
Value change: -14.3%
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November 4th, 2008 close: 9,625.28
January 19th, 2009 close (markets closed for MLK Day): 8,281.22
March 5th, 2009 close (lowest before recovery): 6,594.44
Value change (4 Nov – 5 Mar): -31.5%
Value change (19 Jan – 5 Mar): -20.4%
Raw Numbers
Feel free to infer (or not infer) whatever you’d like. (Or, as one TV network likes to say, “I report, you decide.”)
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