Global Financial Data

Global Financial Data With data on over 60,000 companies covering 300 years, GFD offers a unique source to analyze the twists and turns of the global economy.

Those who use Global Financial Data will take the experiences of the past to minimize the uncertainty of the future. Markets reflect the fundamentals of the economy and how investors interpret this information in their investment decisions. No other company can provide the rich, diverse history that GFD offers its users. With financial markets all over the world going through unprecedented changes

, can you afford to ignore the past? To understand what financial markets are doing today and where they may go in the future, you have to understand how financial markets have changed over the past 300 years. GFD tracks the growth of the European, US and global economies in the 1800s and 1900s for both developing and emerging markets and charts the changes in financial markets and the economy in the 1900s as the world went through two world wars, the Great Depression, recovery from World War II, stagflation, the emergence of Asian markets and the internet bubble in the 1990s. The past few years have shown that without a full understanding of the past, you cannot understand how markets behave.

1981 and 1986 stand out as two of the most volatile periods in Italy since 1956 on a daily and on a weekly basis. The be...
05/31/2022

1981 and 1986 stand out as two of the most volatile periods in Italy since 1956 on a daily and on a weekly basis. The best month data are biased by the strong inflation that occurred in Italy during and right after WWII.

The Venetians were the first to start trading securities from other governments. Moneylenders traded debts between each ...
05/30/2022

The Venetians were the first to start trading securities from other governments. Moneylenders traded debts between each other. Lenders also bought government debt issues and were sold debt issues to the first individual investors.

You might expect that a trip to coffee shop to get some work done is a modern phenomenon. However, back in the time of t...
05/26/2022

You might expect that a trip to coffee shop to get some work done is a modern phenomenon. However, back in the time of the East India companies, there were no stock exchanges. If you wanted to buy stock, you'd have to hit up your local coffee shops to find a broker.

US railways transformed bookkeeping into accounting. Distribution networks, fare collection, and competitive rates, nece...
05/25/2022

US railways transformed bookkeeping into accounting. Distribution networks, fare collection, and competitive rates, necessitated accounting, which provided cost estimates, financial statements, operating ratios, and production reports.

05/23/2022

The real return to Australian stocks was higher before 1936 than it was after 1936. This can be explained by the fact that Australia was an emerging market. By comparison, between 1825 and 2018, US Stocks returned 7.10% after inflation, versus 7.42%, for Australia. .

05/18/2022

The decline in the early 1890s was driven by the banking crisis in Hong Kong which occurred in 1890; however, the 1895 Treaty of Shimoneseki opened up the Chinese market to foreign investors and the stock market boomed for the next 10 years.

We can measure Brazil's equity risk premium using MSCI Brazil Index and the EMBI US Bond Index. Between 1993-2018, a bon...
05/16/2022

We can measure Brazil's equity risk premium using MSCI Brazil Index and the EMBI US Bond Index. Between 1993-2018, a bond investor would have received a 10.43% annual return while an investor would have received a 10.19% return. Bonds outperformed stocks during the past 25 years.

Most people may think that small stocks of little interest to investors that traded OTC prior to NASDAQ, nothing could b...
05/07/2022

Most people may think that small stocks of little interest to investors that traded OTC prior to NASDAQ, nothing could be further from the truth. Several companies traded OTC before they listed on the NYSE, like Chevron, ExxonMobil, Disney, WalMart and JPMorgan Chase.

05/06/2022

Karl Marx used the Overend collapse as a symbol of all that was wrong with capitalism. Just as no one from Wall Street went to jail over the collapse of Bear Stearns, no one from Overend Gurney and Co was convicted of any crimes.

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From 1870s-1920s, there was a steady increase in the amount paid in dividends as railroads and industrial companies spre...
05/05/2022

From 1870s-1920s, there was a steady increase in the amount paid in dividends as railroads and industrial companies spread throughout the economy. The index hit peaks in 1916, right before the US entered WWI, in 1929 when the bull market of the 1920s hit its peak, and in 1937.

05/04/2022

If you add the other Anglo-Saxon countries of Canada, Australia and New Zealand to the United States and the United Kingdom, those five countries represented almost 80% of the global stock market capitalization in the 1950s and 1960s.

05/03/2022

Other World Indices have little history compared to GFD’s world index; however, we were able to compare the performance of GFD’s World Index (black), MSCI Developed World Index (blue) and FTSE World Index (green). GFD’s World Index has outperformed other indices since 1987.

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