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Technology Stocks : Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO)
CSCO 78.94+1.3%1:14 PM EST

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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (67354)3/13/2005 6:58:43 PM
From: rkral  Read Replies (2) of 77400
 
Lizzie, re "until the very latest part of the 90s ... the 50s were by far the best decade for stocks"

Take a look at this chart of the NYSE and NASDAQ from 1939 throught 2004 ... and you might change your mind.

rkral.brinkster.net

The chart is logarithmic ... meaning a straight line is a constant percentage line. The two lines are the best straight line approximations ... for the two indices.

Ron

P.S. The data is taken from ...
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