Saturday, October 29, 2011

29 October 01929

It was 82 years ago today when Wall Street crashed; thus, giving birth to the Great Depression.
01928.10.01: 240.01 [1st date provided by Finance.Yahoo.com]
...
01928.12.31: 300.00 [end of 01928]
...
01929.05.21: 314.09 [almost hecto-Pi]
...
01929.09.03: 381.17 [highest value since 01928.10.01]
...
01929.10.25: 301.22 [Friday; down 21% since high on 01929.09.03]
01929.10.28: 260.64 [Monday; down 13.5% for the day]
01929.10.29: 230.07 [Tuesday; down 11.7% for the day]
01929.10.30: 258.47 [Wednesday; up 12.3% for the day]
01929.10.31: 273.51 [Thursday; up 5.8% for the day]
... Why no Friday? ...
01929.11.04: 257.68 [Monday]
...
01932:07.08: 41.22 [all-time low]

On 02011.10.29 the DJIA was at 12,231.11. In other words, since its all-time low of 41.22 reached on 01932.07.08 (i.e. 28,967 days ago [79 years, 3 months, 21 days]), the DJIA has increased 29,572.8%. [Approximately 7.433% per year?]

No comments:

Post a Comment