Tag: SP500
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Triskaidekaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th) and the stock market.
So, today is the day. An unlucky day, some would have it (although nobody is quite sure why or when it became so). Black cats, broken mirrors etc. Theres a branch of financial economics that looks at the effect of superstition on the stock market. It has a somewhat different story to tell about Friday…
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Over what periods, if any, did Gold beat the SP500 Price Index?
My post on gold and the need to look at the recent falls in a longterm perspective have generated some heat and light on the twitterweb. One critique is : sure if you look at the original post it is an artefact of the timing. So, here are a series of charts of gold v…