Discussion of stock values

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jan 26 17:20:22 PST 1999


Tom Lehman wrote:


>The S&P 500 Composite Price Index was only created in 1957 and indexed
>back to a base period of 1941-1943.

There's a comparable Cowles Commission Index that goes back to 1871. Goetzmann's got numbers going back to 1820.

Doug



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