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To: Vitas who wrote (27910)	1/18/2002 10:17:03 AM
From: Paul Shread	Respond to of 52237

That's a pretty authoritative list of sources, and Cowles is among them. Cowles is really worth exploring if you ever get the chance. They really considered a lot of things no one else did, such as stock splits, dividends, how often stocks traded, rights offerings, subscriptions, and so on. Irving Fisher was among the members. Even the Fed's own efforts of a few years ago paled in comparison. Unfortunately, the first true index was the rails in 1884 (the S&P index was actually calculated in 1918), so anything before that is a best guess. Am going to put my 'research department' on it anyway. -g- May need to just look at daily papers from the period.