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Week in Review Process

Week in Review | financial news, news review, foreign affairs and economic commentary

Week in Review

The day begins at 5:00 a.m., as Brian Trumbore reads some 15 papers online, as well as hard copies of two or three other journals, to glean all the financial news as well as geopolitical items from around the world to begin to build the week in review. Throughout the day, it’s a non-stop news review, in essence, as the financial news piles up.

At 4:00 p.m., it’s time to review many of the same online sources following the market’s close, and then around 7:30 p.m., its back to some of the other global sources, plus over 20 business and political journals that arrive weekly and monthly for more financial news and foreign affairs, all part of the week in review. Then the next morning it starts all over again, seven days a week.

Week in review is the only column of its kind that truly supplies one with all the geopolitical and financial news that both the average investor and follower of the world scene needs to compete in our information age.  Online Investor magazine rated StocksandNews.com No. 1 for economic commentary for 2000-2002 and we’ve only gotten better since.

Updated every Saturday, check out week in review, available only at StocksandNews.com. Edited by Brian Trumbore.

 

      
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Wall Street History

01/01/2025

2024: The Year in Numbers

Dow Jones +12.9%
S&P 500  +23.3%
Nasdaq  +28.6%
Russell 2000  +10.0%

[Local currency for foreign indices]

Japan (Nikkei) +19.2%
China (Shanghai Comp) +12.7%
U.K. (FTSE)  +5.7%%
Germany (DAX) +18.85%
Stoxx Europe 600 +6.0%

12/31/24…closing price

Dow Jones 42544
S&P 500 5881
Nasdaq 19310

All-time closing highs

Dow Jones... 45014 (12/4/24)
S&P 500... 6090 (12/6/24)
Nasdaq... 20173 (12/16/24)

S&P 500 [Total return, including dividends] 

1995  +37.4
1996  +23.1
1997  +33.4
1998  +28.6
1999  +21.0
2000  -9.1
2001  -11.9
2002  -22.1
2003  +28.7
2004  +10.9
2005  +4.9
2006  +15.8
2007  +5.5
2008  -37.0
2009  +26.5
2010  +15.1
2011  +2.1
2012  +16.0
2013  +32.4
2014  +13.7
2015  +1.4
2016  +12.0
2017  +22.5
2018   -4.4
2019  +31.5
2020  +18.4
2021  +28.7
2022  -18.1
2023  +26.3
2024  +25.5

Nasdaq

1995  +39.9
1996  +22.7
1997  +21.6
1998  +39.6
1999  +85.6
2000  -39.3
2001  -21.1
2002  -31.5
2003  +50.0
2004  +8.6
2005  +1.4
2006  +9.5
2007  +9.8
2008  -40.5
2009  +43.8
2010  +16.9
2011   -1.8
2012  +15.9
2013  +38.3
2014  +13.4
2015  +5.7
2016  +7.5
2017  +28.2
2018   -3.9
2019  +35.2
2020  +43.6
2021  +21.4
2022  -33.1
2023  +43.4
2024  +28.6

Gold

12/96  $368
12/97  $289
12/98  $288
12/99  $289
12/00  $272
12/01  $279
12/02  $347
12/03  $416
12/04  $438
12/05  $519
12/06  $638
12/07  $838
12/08  $884
12/09  $1096
12/10  $1421
12/11  $1566
12/12  $1674…twelve straight up years
12/13  $1202
12/14  $1184
12/15  $1061
12/16  $1152
12/17  $1305
12/18  $1284
12/19  $1523
12/20  $1901
12/21  $1830
12/22  $1830…unch
12/23  $2073
12/24  $2639

*Gold’s all-time high is $2801, intraday, set on 10/30/24.

Oil (West Texas Intermediate)

12/99  $25.20
12/00  $26.80
12/01  $19.84
12/02  $31.20
12/03  $32.52
12/04  $43.45
12/05  $61.04
12/06  $61.05
12/07  $95.98
12/08  $44.60
12/09  $79.36
12/10  $91.38
12/11  $98.83
12/12  $91.80
12/13  $98.42
12/14  $53.27
12/15  $37.04
12/16  $53.89
12/17  $60.10
12/18  $45.41
12/19  $61.06
12/20  $48.42
12/21  $75.45
12/22  $80.51
12/23  $71.40
12/24  $71.87

*Oil’s all-time high was set on 7/11/08…$147

U.S. Treasury Yields…2-yr. / 10-yr.

12/31/99…6.24 / 6.43

12/31/03…1.82 / 4.25

12/31/04…3.07 / 4.22

12/31/05…4.40 / 4.39

12/31/06…4.82 / 4.72

12/31/07…3.05 / 4.03

12/31/08…0.76 / 2.21

12/31/09…1.14 / 3.83

12/31/10…0.59 / 3.29

12/31/11…0.24 / 1.88

12/31/12…0.25 / 1.76

12/31/13...0.38 / 3.03

12/31/14...0.66 / 2.17

12/31/15...1.05 / 2.27

12/31/16...1.19 / 2.44

12/31/17...1.88 / 2.41

12/31/18...2.49 / 2.68

12/31/19...1.57 / 1.92

12/31/20…0.12 / 0.91

12/31/21…0.73 / 1.51

12/31/22…4.43 / 3.87

12/31/23…4.25 / 3.88

12/31/24....4.24 / 4.57

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Wall Street History returns in a few weeks…Existing home sales….

Brian Trumbore