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Chart Of The Day

chart shows years stacked in boxes based on annual return rate

Chart of the Day: Returns are Rarely Normal

Today’s Chart of the Day comes from A Wealth of Common Sense showing the range of annual returns over the last 95 years. The long-term average is 10%..

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Blue bar chart shows that 43% of people use the TV as their main source of news, other sources include Google, Facebook and Twitter

Chart of the Day: TV is Still Top

Today’s Chart of the Day is from the recent Harvard Caps/Harris poll. After all of these years, at 43%, TV is still the principal place people get..

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Chart color codes each continent with a corresponding color. The US is in magenta.

Chart of the Day: Total Population

Today’s Chart of the Day comes from statsofindia.in with information from the United Nations Population Fund. It shows where everyone lives on earth.

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Chart of the Day: What's in Your Portfolio?

Today’s Chart of the Day from S&P Global shows the size of the United States S&P 400 Mid-Cap and S&P 600 Small-Cap Indexes vs. the size of other..

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top 15 companies in the United States including Apple and Microsoft

Chart of the Day: Exxon vs. Dow

Today’s Chart of the Day from a Bloomberg article discusses Exxon Mobil's exclusion from the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index. The chart shows that..

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Chart of the Day: West vs. East Prices

Today’s Chart of the Day from the Wall Street Journal shows that home prices are falling on the West Coast of the U.S. and rising in the East.

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chart spans from 1958 to 2021 with the peak on September 30, 1981 with a yield of 15.84%

Chart of the Day: Real Returns

Today’s Chart of the Day from J.P. Morgan shows the history of the 10-year Treasury yield and the “real” yield, which is what you have left after you..

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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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