| Oct 2003 | - Years before Enron declared bankruptcy in 2001 that the IRS asked the SEC to investigate the firm : 2.5
| Source:
U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
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| Oct 2003 | - Amount in "disgorgement" that the SEC has ordered a former Xerox CEO to pay in connection with alleged fraud : $7,600,000
| Source:
Securities and Exchange Commission
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| May 2003 | - Last period in which the Dow declined for four consecutive years: 1929-1932
| Source:
Dow Jones (N.Y.C.)
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| Apr 2003 | - Last calendar year in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained in value: 1999
| Source:
Dow Jones (N.Y.C.)
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| Oct 2002 | - Value of the Dow Jones industrial average in 1996 when Alan Greenspan warned of investors' "irrational exuberance": 6,437
| Source:
Harper's research
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| Apr 2002 | - Number of times between 1998 and 2000 that errors or irregularities forced publicly traded firms to restate earnings: 463
| Source:
Financial Executives International (Morristown, N.J.)
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| Apr 2002 | - Number of people charged between 1988 and 1992 in connection with the U.S. savings and loan collapse: 1,098
| Source:
Robert Tillman, St. John's University (Queens, N.Y.)
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| Apr 2002 | - Minimum number of violations for which the Securities and Exchange Commission cited George W. Bush in the 1991 : 4
| Source:
Center for Public Integrity (Washington)
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| Nov 2001 | - Total cumulative profit earned by the Nasdaq's 4,200 companies since September 1995: 0
| Source:
Multex.com (N.Y.C.)
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| Jul 2001 | - Days after Dow Jones laid off 202 workers that its CEO published a scathing review of his Caribbean vacation: 1
| Source:
Dow Jones & Company (N.Y.C.)/ Harper's research
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| Jul 2001 | - Percentage change, since January, in the stock price of 99¢ Only Stores: +65
| Source:
Harper's research
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| May 2001 | - Average percentage by which a Wall Street analyst's high-tech-earnings forecast in early 1999 was incorrect: 44
| Source:
Bloomberg News (N.Y.C.)
|
| May 2001 | - Average percentage by which an amateur stock website's forecast was incorrect: 21
| Source:
Bloomberg News (N.Y.C.)
|
| Mar 2001 | - Annual number of U.S. elementary school students who play The Stock Market Game, a 10-week trading simulation: 200,000
| Source:
Securities Industry Foundation for Economic Education (N.Y.C.)
|
| Dec 2000 | - Days after his appointment last July that Japan's top finance regulator resigned over “suspicious” payments he'd received: 26
| Source:
Japan Information and Culture Center (Washington)
|
| Nov 2000 | - Factor by which the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased between 1992 and 1998: 2.9
| Source:
Wall Street JournalMarket Data Group (South Brunswick, N.J.)
|
| Jul 2000 | - Percentage change since last August in the price of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange: -36
| Source:
New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.C.)
|
| Apr 2000 | - Percentage change in foreign direct investment in Vietnam between 1991 and 1996: +1,142
| Source:
Embassy of Vietnam (Washington)
|
| Apr 2000 | - Percentage change in foreign direct investment in Vietnam since 1996: -43
| Source:
Embassy of Vietnam (Washington)
|
| Apr 2000 | - Total return on a dollar
invested in the “socially responsible” Domini 400 Social Index in 1990: $5.75
| Source:
Hal Brill, Jack A. Brill, and Cliff Feigenbaum, Investing With Your Values, Bloomberg Press (Princeton, N.J.)
|
| Feb 2000 | - Percentage change in the stock price of Microsoft rival Red Hat in the five weeks after the antitrust ruling: +218
| Source:
Lippert/Heilshorn &Associates, Inc. (N.Y.C.)
|
| Jan 2000 | - Estimated amount lost by Isaac Newton in South Sea stock speculation in the 1720s: $2,000,000
| Source:
Edward Chancellor, Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (N.Y.C.)
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| Apr 1999 | - Factor by which U.S. stock market growth must exceed GDP growth for Social Security stock investment to work: 5
| Source:
Left Business Observer (N.Y.C.)
|
| Mar 1999 | - Percentage change since 1996 in the value of initial public offerings of stock in Silicon Valley companies: -45
| Source:
Securities Data Corporation (Newark, N.J.)
|
| Mar 1999 | - Keys required, along with the alt key, to type the euro symbol on new Windows-compatible keyboards sold in the U.S.: 0,1,2,8
| Source:
Microsoft Corp. (Redmond, Wash.)
|
| Feb 1999 | - Estimated chances that a U.S. corporate merger will result in short- and long-term shareholder losses: 2 in 3
| Source:
Professor Mark Sirower, The Wharton School (Philadelphia)
|
| Feb 1999 | - Number of S&Ls or shareholder groups seeking damages from the government over its handling of the 1980s bailout: 120
| Source:
U.S. Department of Justice
|
| Dec 1998 | - Number of countries whose “unsustainable” debt the World Bank identified as “in need” of relief in 1996: 40
| Source:
The World Bank (Washington)
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| Dec 1998 | - Number of countries whose “unsustainable” debt the World Bank identified as “in need” of relief that have received debt relief since then: 2
| Source:
The World Bank (Washington)
|
| Dec 1998 | - Estimated average amount Americans lose to securities fraud, per hour: $1,000,000
| Source:
North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (Washington)
|
| Nov 1998 | - Number of heart attacks on Wall Street the day the market dropped 513 points last August: 2
| Source:
Dr. Ira Schulman, NYU Downtown Hospital (N.Y.C.)
|
| Oct 1998 | - Total bad debt held by American S&Ls in 1988, expressed as a percentage of U.S. GDP that year: 3.2
| Source:
Japan Economic Institute (Washington)
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