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A 10 page paper evaluating the relationship between interest rates and the S&P 500 index, for the purpose of determining whether the two are connected. Of course we know the stock market grew at its greatest rates and to its highest volumes ever during the decade of the 1990s, while interest rates sank lower than they had been since the 1960s. It is tempting to place a direct link between interest rates and the value of the S&P 500, but that relationship likely will not be supported by further analysis. Bibliography lists 6 sources. Includes 3 tables.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSintRateSP500.rtf
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Standard & Poors first began providing company information for investors in the mid-19th century. It was a time that there was little information gathered into
one place, and investors virtually were at the mercy of organizations with the need to take at face value what those organizations chose to tell them about their business results.
This was long before the advent of the first corporations, and businesses were under little regulatory obligation to disclose any information. Organizations are obligated to furnish much more
information to investors today, both in volume and in detail. The S&P 500 is more useful than ever in providing a view of the performance of the stock market.
Interest rates are of immeasurable importance in the overall health of the national economy, of course. Manipulation of interest rates is done
at the discretion of the Federal Reserve Board, the US central bank. The Fed raises interest rates in the face of rising inflation or to slow the economy when
it is expanding at too rapid a rate. It lowers interest rates in times of slower growth as a measure to stimulate the economy. The purpose here is
to discover if there is a link between the movement of interest rates and the movement of the value of the S&P 500.
Market Indices Today, the S&P 500 is only one of the companys indices of stock performance. It and the Dow Industrials
provide the two most common - and useful - stock performance indices in existence. In times past, the Dow Industrials gained more attention. It is, as its name
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