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Stock Market and Interest Rate charts. Stock market indexes. Dow Jones Industrial Average List http://money.cnn.com/data/dow30/ S&P 500 Complete list http://nyjobsource.com/sandp1.html NASDAQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasdaq_Composite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ
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Stock market indexes • Dow Jones Industrial Average List http://money.cnn.com/data/dow30/ • S&P 500 Complete list http://nyjobsource.com/sandp1.html • NASDAQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasdaq_Composite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ http://www.allstocks.com/NASDAQ/
S&P 500 Price, Dividends, EPS (annual data) Price and earnings move together, dividends are lagging
Stock Price=earnings x Multiple • Multiple = price to earnings ratio • High multiples are sensible only if earnings are going to grow rapidly
P/E ratio Average since 1988 about 19, longer term average 15.9
USA TODAY Internet 100 9/29/00
Interest Rate: Forward and Futures • Have looked at historical interest rates for perspective • Yield curve is forward looking and contains implicit rates for future years • Interest rate futures are traded on CME group exchanges and provide market expectations • Interest rates are relatively low in 2012 • Cannot “lock in” today’s low rate – can only lock in forward or futures rates
Forward interest rates • Hypothetical interest rates available • Fixed for one year @ 3% • Fixed for two years @ 4% • Fixed for three years @ 5% • The cost for the first year is 3%. • The two year loan costs 8% over two years, of which • 3% is the first year cost, • leaving 5% as the implied forward rate for the second year. • If you take the three year fixed period, the cost for three years is 15% • subtracting 3% for the first year and 5% for the second year, leaves 7% as the cost in the third year. • Thus, 5% and 7% are the year two and three forward rates.
More Accurate Forward Rate Calculation (accounts for compounding) • irj = interest rate from time i to time j. • one year rate ; 0r1 = 3% -- given • two year cost: (1.04)2 = (1.03)(1+1r2) 1r2 = 5.01% • three year cost: (1.05)3 = (1.03)(1.0501)(1+2r3) 2r3 = 7.029%
Interest Rate Futures • CME group • Treasuries of different maturities and Eurodollar Futures • Eurodollar futures are on 3 month LIBOR interest rates • London Interbank Offered Rate • Traded many months into the future • Prices quoted as 100 minus the percentage interest rate • 5% interest would be quoted as a Eurodollar futures price of 95. • http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/interest-rates/
Eurodollar Futures 3 month LIBOR futures 9/4/2012