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Strategies & Market Trends : MDA - Market Direction Analysis
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To: Casaubon who wrote (8566)3/20/1999 4:19:00 PM
From: umbro  Read Replies (1) of 99985
 
Stock Prices Pre- and Post- 1929 Market Crash

From "The Big Board; A History of the New
York Stock Market," by Robert Sobel; 1965; page 283;
"Table 13.8 -- Prices for Selected Stocks, 1923,
1929, and 1932." (The source of this information is
a book by Bining, "Rise of American Economic Life."
(The 1929 prices are adjusted for splits and dividends)


Company                     1923            1929           1932
Allied Chemical & Die        59              355             42
Anaconda  Copper             32              175              3
Atcheson, Topeka &SF         94              299             35
DuPont                      106             1617            154
GE                          168             1612            136
GM                           51             1075             40
New York Central             90              257              9
RCA                          26              574             12
Union Carbide                51              420             46
US Steel                     85              366             30


No Internet back then, but they did have their own share of 10-bagger technology stocks.

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