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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (9307)	11/24/1997 9:33:00 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) of 18056

Those cash flows are for all US companies, in total, private and public. The numbers are not directly comparable to stock market indices because the stock market indices are designed to show what the result of investing in the stock market would be, rather than what the total value of the stock market is. (In other words, the issuance of new stock immediately increases the total stock market capitalization, but doesn't immediately change the stock market indices.) I don't have a good feel for what the long-term differences between the indexes and the total market caps should be. New stock issuance should inflate the market cap numbers, while stock buybacks should do the reverse. You can see why I want the market cap numbers, rather than just the capital gains returns. I've not been able to find total market cap data, though I've been looking for at least an hour. Anybody have data? -- Carl

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