The Standard and Poor’s 500 (S&P 500) index has been introduced in its current form on 4 March 1957, but it existed previously as well. It has 500 components.
S&P 500’s returns in the last 5 years on a chart
S&P 500‘s return against inflation in the last 5 years
S&P 500’s value was going up with short pauses since its lowest low in 2009, then it seemed to go sideways for a year, and is rising again.
Bitcoin is one of the most successful cryptocurrencies. It’s short history if full of interesting facts and events which must be known by everyone who is dealing with it.
Today there are many dealers accepting bitcoins as payment. The payment system works without a central repository. Network node operators running the bitcoin system receive bitcoins as reward of their efforts.
The most important performance factor of bitcoin is how much US dollars is a bitcoin worth? So let’s see a BTC/USD chart since 2009:
Continue reading Bitcoin price history chart since 2009
The Standard and Poor’s 500 (S&P 500) index has been introduced in its current form on 4 March 1957, but it existed previously as well. It has 500 components.
S&P 500‘s returns in the last 10 years on a chart
S&P 500‘s returns against inflation in the last 10 years
S&P 500’s 10 years history covers the entire financial crysis and 1-2 years preceeding it. Today it is far above its pre-crysis peak (1600 vs 2348). Actually it was rapidly growing since 2009 with short drawdawns, then it seemed to be moving sideways for a year, and now it is growing again.
Both gold and silver are precious metals and both are often mentioned as some kind of safe haven – especially in a financial crysis. On the other hand both the application and the production of silver and gold are more or less different.
However risk and potential return carried by them was also different in the past 5 year, as it can be seen on the charts below:
The chart below shows by how many percents the price of precious metals has increased or decreased, as compared to the point on the left side of the screen.
Continue reading Gold vs. silver chart about price, performance and risk
Gold is often referred as a “safe haven” during an economical / financial crysis. Well, these opinions have proven more or less wrong according to long term / 10 year charts because gold’s price has shown quite high volatility. On the other hand gold’s price did not change as extremely as silver’s price.
(Differences between gold and silver are highlighted in the 5 year gold-silver comparison charts.)
Gold price performance chart in the past 10 years
Gold price performance against inflation in the last 10 years
Gold’s 10 year history covers the entire financial crysis and 1-2 year preceeding it. Today it is at cca. 700 $ below its peak (1900 vs 1200) Actually its price seems to stay around 1200 for the past year.
Continue reading Gold 10 year charts of performance and historical outlook
(Differences between gold and silver are highlighted in the 5 year gold-silver comparison charts.)
Continue reading Gold 5 year charts of performance and historical outlook
Natural gas is mostly used for heating, in chemical industry, power generation and transportation.
This page is about the past 5 years of natural gas which is traded worldwide in the unit of mmBTU (1 mmBTU = 1.05587 GJ or 293.3 kWh) and in the currency of USD.
Continue reading Natural gas 5 year charts of price and performance
There are number of reasons to study historical charts of gold. Firstly because it is said to be investors’ safe haven and secondly because it is said to be protecting from inflation.
Lots of things happened on gold’s market in the past years and one can easily ask if it is really worth as much as it costs?
Continue reading Historical gold price chart: how much is gold worth?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average index has been introduced on 26 May 1896 and it has 30 components.
10 year Dow Jones Industrial Average index chart
DJIA performance chart in the past 10 years
DJIA performance against inflation in the last 10 years
DJIA’s 10 year history covers the entire financial crysis and 1-2 years preceeding it. Today it is cca. 6000 points above its pre-crysis peak (20500vs. 14400) Actually it was growing rapidly since 2009, then the trend stopped for a while and it continues now.