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Chart Of The Day

list includes things such as full legal name, work history, last tax return, and important documents such as a will, trust, and deed to your home

Chart of the Day: Personal Records

Today’s Chart of the Day is a great checklist from MarketWatch.com. As an example, I store this information in the notes of “My Card," in Contacts on..

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U.S. represented in blue on chart, dates span from 1975 to 2020

Chart of the Day: Opportunity in the U.S.

Today’s Chart of the Day from the Financial Times shows that the U.S. currently makes up about half of the world's stock market.

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chart shows over 14,000 banks in 1980 and just 4,236 in 2021

Chart of the Day: Vanishing Banks

There used to be a bank on every corner; however, today’s Chart of the Day from BlackRock shows a 71% decline in US banks since 1980. Why?

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S&P 500 only during the day after it went up the previous day in blue,  owning it after it went down the previous day in orange

Chart of the Day: Don't Chase the Trend

Today’s Chart of the Day from Bespoke shows the difference in price, excluding dividends, if you owned the S&P 500 only during the day after it went..

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consistent growth on the chart is denoted by a blue line

Chart of the Day: GDP Per Person

Today’s Chart of the Day shows the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per person growing 2% per year since 1870.

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Top 11 companies listed in the chart: Coca-Cola, Unilever, Pepsico, Kellogg's, Mars, General Mills, Mondelez, Johnson-Johnson, KraftHeinz, Nestle, P&G

Chart of the Day: Pepsi Does Not Just Sell Pepsi

Today’s Chart of the Day shows 11 of the largest companies and which brands/products they own and distribute.

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38.7% in green represents people who own their home, 31.9% are mortgaged homes with more than 50% equity, 29.4% in blue represents mortgages homes with less that 50% equity

Chart of the Day:  Tremendous Equity

Today’s Chart of the Day shows that a combined 68% of Americans have paid off their mortgage or have at least 50% in equity. If there is a “downturn”..

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ETFs represented by light blue, Mutual Funds in dark blue

Chart of the Day: ETFs Win Again

Today’s Chart of the Day from OliverWyman shows the number of new funds being created each year in the U.S. since 2016.

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chart shows world map with percentage of active funds outperformed by benchmarks over 1-, 3-, and 5-year periods

Chart of the Day: Index vs. The World

Over the last five years, 87% of actively managed funds in the US underperformed their index. Today’s Chart of the Day from S&P Global shows this..

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