A seemingly random look at some numbers you may find interesting …
- 5 : Basis Points in the coupon for 13-week US T-Bills today after seeing the Federal Reserve cut the discount rate to “0-.25%”.
55: The Percentage of S&P 100 [OEX] stocks that currently trade with a dividend yield of 3%, or higher.
28: Percentage of those stocks that have at least 3 positive technical attributes as well.
69: Number of days since 1950 where the market has moved more than 4% in a day.
29: Number of those 4% days that have occurred since the beginning of October of this year.
25: Number of US Banks that have failed in 2008 according to the FDIC.
3 : Number of US Banks that had failed in the 3 years prior (2005-2007).
70: The average number of annual bank failures during the 1920s (source: Living History Farm)
744: Number of banks that failed in the first 10 months of 1930 following the crash, in all 9,000 banks failed during the decade of the 30s. (source: Living History Farm)
