History of Credit Bubbles

This chart shows a historic overview of several financial bubbles. From the Tulip Mania in the 1630's to the Real estate Boom that ended in the late 2000's. This research was provided by Goldman Sachs.

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ZeroHedge

Chinese and U.S Stock Markets: Divergence

As you can see setting the stock markets of the U.S. and China in the beginning of 2010 as 100, the Chinese stock market declined to almost 60 and the U.S. stocks soared to almost 130.

Will this trend continue?

Financial Markets Reaction to the Euro Zone Bailouts

Reuters made these great graphs which give an overview of the market reaction to the Euro Zone bailouts. The following indicators are shown: euro/dollar, Euro Zone banks, Euro Zone government banks and Euro Zone equities.

Reuters

Euro Zone Assets Moved Outside Currency Bloc

According by a survey from Reuters, leading investors are moving out of the Euro Zone and into Japan and the U.K. This is very worrisome for the Euro (crisis).

Collapse of the Euro Zone Banks

This chart shows the market value of all the shares of the banks in the Euro Zone, as a percentage of total shares of all the companies listed on the stock markets in the Euro Zone. The share (%) of the banks collapsed from a top in 2007 to a close to historical low in 2012.

Thomson Reuters

Size Of The Financial Markets

In 2010 world Gross domestic product was 63 trillion dollars. The financial industry is many times bigger than the value of all goods and services produced in the world. Shares and bonds are about the same value of world GDP, but derivatives trading and foreign currency transactions are ten and fifteen times bigger than world gdp.

Der Spiegel

Global Stock Market Capitalization

Global Stock Market Capitalization grew to 54 trillion dollar in 2010 according to research by McKinsey Global Insitute. This is 87% of World GDP in 2010.

McKinsey

Did QE Affect Stocks (S&P 500)

Graph with the S&P 500 between January 2008 and April 2011 with the main data of Quantitative Easing. Quantitative Easing is a policy of the Federal Reserve in which the National Bank bought United States Treasuries to bring interest rates down in other words to combat deflation and bring unemployment down. The current quantittative easing (i.e. QE2) will come to an end on July 1st 2011.

Calculated Risk

Leading Indicators United States Up in May

This chart shows that all of the ten selected leading economic indicators for the United States except for Supplies Deliveries have increased in May compared to April. Let's see if the growth continues in June.

Econompic Data