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Strategies & Market Trends : John Pitera's Market Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Pitera who wrote (2908)	11/30/2000 5:53:10 PM
From: Logain Ablar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33421

Hi John: Here is an update on market levels through todays close. I've added the dow and the inflation rates since the last time. The simple average is not quite accurate since it counts this year as a full year and the inflation rate is either August or September. Investment Analysis Return on Return on Return on $100 $100 $100 Invested in Invested in Invested in Year DOW S&P Nasdaq Inflation DOW S&P Nasdaq Industrials 500 Rate Industrials 500 1 1972 14.6% 15.6% 17.2% 3.3% 115 116 117 2 1973 -16.6% -17.4% -31.1% 6.2% 96 95 81 3 1974 -27.6% -29.7% -35.1% 11.0% 69 67 52 4 1975 38.3% 28.1% 29.8% 9.1% 96 86 68 5 1976 17.9% 19.2% 26.1% 5.8% 113 102 86 6 1977 -17.3% -11.2% 7.3% 6.5% 93 91 92 7 1978 -3.1% 1.1% 12.3% 7.7% 90 92 103 8 1979 4.2% 12.3% 25.1% 11.3% 94 103 129 9 1980 14.9% 25.8% 33.9% 13.5% 108 130 173 10 1981 -9.2% -9.7% -3.1% 10.4% 98 117 168 11 1982 19.6% 14.8% 18.7% 6.1% 118 135 199 12 1983 20.3% 17.3% 19.9% 3.2% 141 158 239 13 1984 -3.7% 1.4% 11.2% 4.3% 136 160 265 14 1985 27.7% 26.3% 31.4% 3.6% 174 202 349 15 1986 22.6% 14.6% 7.4% 1.8% 213 232 374 16 1987 2.3% 2.0% -5.3% 3.6% 218 237 355 17 1988 11.8% 12.4% 15.4% 4.1% 244 266 409 18 1989 27.0% 27.3% 19.3% 4.8% 309 338 488 19 1990 -4.3% -6.6% -17.8% 5.4% 296 316 401 20 1991 20.3% 26.3% 56.8% 4.2% 356 399 629 21 1992 4.2% 4.5% 18.5% 3.0% 371 417 745 22 1993 13.7% 7.1% 14.8% 3.0% 422 447 855 23 1994 2.1% -1.5% -3.2% 2.2% 431 440 828 24 1995 33.5% 34.1% 39.9% 2.8% 575 590 1,159 25 1996 26.0% 20.3% 22.7% 2.9% 724 709 1,422 26 1997 22.6% 31.1% 21.6% 2.3% 888 930 1,729 27 1998 16.1% 26.7% 39.6% 1.6% 1,031 1,178 2,414 28 1999 2.4% 19.1% 84.1% 2.2% 1,056 1,402 4,445 29 11/00 10.8% -10.5% -36.2% 3.2% 1,170 1,255 2,836 290.93% 300.57% 441.10% 149.10% Average 10.39% 10.73% 15.75% 5.33%