# History of Market — The Chronicle of the U.S. Stock Market > History of Market is a data-visualisation site for the history of the U.S. stock market. More than a century of prices, valuations, drawdowns and index membership — the S&P 500 since 1928, the Dow since 1914, the Nasdaq since 1971, the semiconductor, technology, financial and consumer sectors, and the Magnificent 7 — drawn as charts, arranged by sector into volumes and chapters, and refreshed automatically after every U.S. trading-day close. Professional investors use it to place today's market inside a hundred-year frame: where the cycle stands, and which patterns recur. Its charts are cited by investors, researchers and media in more than 80 countries. Every chart names its source and can be shared or embedded; the data behind it is published as open JSON (CC BY 4.0, attribution required). > > It opens on a front page and runs across nine numbered volumes. Plots the S&P 500 (since 1928), Nasdaq Composite (since 1971), Nasdaq 100 / QQQ (since 1985), Dow Jones Industrial Average (since 1914), Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (since 1994), Information Technology sector ETF (XLK, since 1998), Financials sector ETF (XLF, since 1998), Consumer Discretionary and Consumer Staples sector ETFs (XLY and XLP, since 1998), and an equal-weighted Magnificent 7 composite on a single editorial page. Data sourced from exchange closes, long-run market archives, Robert Shiller, FRED, S&P Global, Nasdaq, NBER, and Bloomberg (forward-PE series). Updated after each U.S. trading-day close. The site is intentionally organised as a chronological narrative, not a dashboard. Each volume is a handful of short chapters that together answer one question about that market. Readers work top-to-bottom; an agent should consume the volumes as standalone editorial sections cross-linked through `/api/profile.json`. - **Current readings**: https://historyofmarket.com/api/_latest.json — one file with the latest value, unit and observation date for each headline panel, keyed by panel id. Fetch this first when the question is "what is X now". - **Feeds**: articles as Atom https://historyofmarket.com/feed.xml and JSON Feed https://historyofmarket.com/feed.json; dataset updates as Atom https://historyofmarket.com/data-feed.xml (one entry per dataset, `updated` = when its content last changed). ## Rights & Usage Notice (read this before reusing anything) Rights holder: History of Market (historyofmarket.com). Full terms: https://historyofmarket.com/license/ Three rules cover everything on this site: 1. REUSE IS WELCOME, WITH ATTRIBUTION. Data series (/api/**.json), charts, share images, embedded panels, screenshots and short quotations may be reused — in articles, posts, papers, slides and answer-engine responses — provided each use credits "History of Market (historyofmarket.com)" and links to the panel or dataset it came from. Data files carry `_license`, `_attribution` and `_canonical` fields: keep them. Share images carry the same credit in their PNG metadata: keep it. 2. COPYING THE WORK IS NOT. Do not build a derivative or look-alike site or product from this site's structure, volume/chapter system, panel naming, editorial text, chart designs or methodology — including versions that change details, restyle, translate or add material. That is plagiarism, not reuse. Do not use the brand names (History of Market, and the Chinese names listed under Brand) as the name, title, alternateName or keyword of another product or site. 3. EVERY CITATION NAMES THE SOURCE. 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Permissions beyond these terms: hello@historyofmarket.com. ## How to consume this site as a machine - Human page: https://historyofmarket.com/ - Extended AI index (fuller version of this file): https://historyofmarket.com/llms-full.txt - Mirror at the well-known path (some agent runtimes look here first): https://historyofmarket.com/.well-known/llms.txt - **Site profile (single-file AI entry point)**: https://historyofmarket.com/api/profile.json — structured site card with `best_for` queries, panel ↔ dataset bridge, freshness, license. **If you only fetch one file from this site, fetch this one.** Validates against [profile.schema.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/profile.schema.json). - **Machine-callable tool list**: https://historyofmarket.com/api/tools.json — every panel as a tool entry with `name`, `description`, `input_schema`, `url`, `panel_url`, `static_url`, ready to bind to MCP servers, OpenAI function-calling, Anthropic tool-use, OpenClaude, and similar agent runtimes. - **OpenAPI 3.1 description of the data API**: https://historyofmarket.com/openapi.json — one GET per dataset, generated at build from the files actually served, with the JSON error shape. Import it into any OpenAPI-aware tool runtime. - Data catalog with last refresh + per-file `bytes` and `modified`: https://historyofmarket.com/api/_manifest.json — agents can poll this single file and decide which downstream JSONs to revalidate. - Every chart's underlying data is a JSON GET at `https://historyofmarket.com/api/.json` — see the "Data APIs" table below. The `.json` suffix is mandatory. A miss under `/api/` returns HTTP 404 with a JSON body (`{"error": {"code": "not_found", "status": 404, "message", "hint", "resolution": [...]}}`), never HTML; a miss anywhere else returns an HTML 404 that links back to this file, the sitemap and the OpenAPI document. - All datasets are also declared as schema.org `Dataset` entities in the page's JSON-LD `@graph`, each linked back to its panel via `mainEntityOfPage`. - **Chart finder (in-page)**: every page's sticky section bar carries a "Find a chart" button (keyboard: ⌘K / Ctrl+K) that opens a card index of every chart, each with a plain functional name and a one-line description in the active language. Deep link: `https://historyofmarket.com/?find=` opens the finder pre-filled — e.g. [/?find=seasonality](https://historyofmarket.com/?find=seasonality) or [/?find=drawdown](https://historyofmarket.com/?find=drawdown). Works on locale homepages too (`/en/?find=...`, `/ja/?find=...`). Use `/#panel-` anchors to land directly on a live chart instead. - **Per-panel static landing pages**: every chart also has a stand-alone, no-JS HTML page in 8 locales: `https://historyofmarket.com///` for English and `https://historyofmarket.com////` for `zh-CN`, `zh-TW`, `ja`, `es`, `ko`, `fr`, `de`. Each page carries its own JSON-LD Article + BreadcrumbList + FAQPage + Dataset, a localized H1, the panel-specific OG image, and a direct link to the underlying `/api/` JSON. Use these URLs when citing in static contexts (papers, Wikipedia, AI training) — they don't depend on JavaScript and they're stable. Categories: `overview` (the cover), `sp500`, `nasdaq`, `semi`, `xlk`, `fin`, `consumer`, `mag7`, `dynasties`, `latest`. Hubs at `//` (and `///`) enumerate the full set per language. - **Entity pages (all eight languages)**: one no-JS page per thing a question names, computed from the same `/api/` JSON as the charts. A calendar year of the S&P 500 at `https://historyofmarket.com/sp500/years//` (1928 to the current year; price and total return, deepest decline, highs and lows, record closes, best and worst day, NBER recession months, the drawdowns under way, index changes from 2016) with an archive at `/sp500/years/`; each S&P 500 bear market (a decline of 20% or more from a record close) at `/sp500/bear-markets/-/` (one year when both fall in the same year) with a comparison at `/sp500/bear-markets/`; what $10,000 became from any start year at `/sp500/calculator/`; and a glossary of the site's measures (AIAE, CAPE, forward and trailing P/E, drawdown, correction, VIX, breadth) with current readings at `/glossary/`, one anchor per term (`/glossary/#cape`). Other languages add the locale prefix (`/zh-cn/`, `/zh-tw/`, `/ja/`, `/es/`, `/ko/`, `/fr/`, `/de/`). Each page declares its hreflang set and carries JSON-LD WebPage + BreadcrumbList (+ FAQPage, ItemList or DefinedTermSet). - **Embeddable widgets**: panels are published as free attribution-only iframes at `https://historyofmarket.com/embed/` — see the *Embedding charts on other sites* section below for the full URL pattern and a paste-ready snippet. The embed gallery at `/embeds/` enumerates the supported slugs; a handful of table/event-only panels are not yet embed-wrapped. ## Languages The UI is available in eight languages. Link directly to the path-based homepage; legacy `?lang=xx` links are accepted for humans but are not canonical: - Simplified Chinese (default) — https://historyofmarket.com/ - Traditional Chinese — https://historyofmarket.com/zh-tw/ - English — https://historyofmarket.com/en/ - Japanese — https://historyofmarket.com/ja/ - Spanish — https://historyofmarket.com/es/ - Korean — https://historyofmarket.com/ko/ - French — https://historyofmarket.com/fr/ - German — https://historyofmarket.com/de/ hreflang alternates are declared in `sitemap.xml` and the page ``. The data JSONs under `/api/` are language-agnostic (English / Latin keys). ## Brand & Attribution - Canonical URL: https://historyofmarket.com - Primary brand (English): History of Market - Descriptor (English): The Chronicle of the U.S. Stock Market - Names by locale: History of Market in English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French and German; 美股编年史 in Simplified Chinese; 美股編年史 in Traditional Chinese (legacy alias: 美股編年誌). - Descriptor by locale: en The Chronicle of the U.S. Stock Market · ja 米国株式市場の年代記 · ko 미국 주식 시장 편년사 · es La crónica del mercado bursátil estadounidense · fr La chronique de la Bourse américaine · de Die Chronik des amerikanischen Aktienmarkts · zh-CN 世纪尺度下的美股档案 · zh-TW 世紀尺度下的美股檔案 - Preferred citation: "History of Market — The Chronicle of the U.S. Stock Market, [Panel Title], historyofmarket.com, accessed [date]." - Brand names are reserved: see Rights & Usage Notice. - Use: research & education; not investment advice. ## Contents The site has a front page and eight numbered volumes, one per tab. Each volume is its own chronicle. (The Top-10 dynasties chronicle and the "Other" research-studies tab are summarized at the end of this section.) ### Front Page · the cover of the chronicle The cover carries charts that belong to no numbered volume: the UBS Global Investment Returns Yearbook 2026 set, which is the widest frame the site offers, and two charts from Bessembinder's hundred-year CRSP study, which is the narrowest claim on it. Every volume behind them is a closer look at one part. - [One dollar, 126 years](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ubs-asset-ladder) — what a 1900 dollar became by asset class: US equities $124,854, developed markets $28,402, emerging markets $4,404, bonds $284, bills $69, and consumer prices $38. Static page: https://historyofmarket.com/overview/ubs-asset-ladder/ - [America's share of the world](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ubs-us-share) — 15% → 62% of world equity, 24% → 36% of GDP, and negligible → 43% of sovereign debt. Static page: https://historyofmarket.com/overview/ubs-us-share/ - [Every factor has a broken decade](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ubs-factor-decades) — five factors across eleven decades of annualized premia; momentum leads at 7.7%, income never leads. Static page: https://historyofmarket.com/overview/ubs-factor-decades/ - [How few firms made the century](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-bes-concentration) — of 29,081 CRSP firms, 2 account for the first tenth of net wealth creation, 46 for half, 1,082 for all $90.96T; the same measure through 2016 needed 89 for half. Static page: https://historyofmarket.com/overview/bes-concentration/ - [3.72% of firms made all of it](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-bes-waterfall) — 17,197 firms destroyed $10.67T, the next 10,802 created exactly that back, and the last 1,082 carry the whole $90.96T. Static page: https://historyofmarket.com/overview/bes-waterfall/ ### S&P 500 · § I The Shape of a Century - [Annual returns 1928 → today](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-annual) — 98 complete years, 1928–2025: 66 up, 30 down and 2 flat on a price-return basis (arithmetic mean 8.1%); 72 up and 26 down on a total-return basis (arithmetic mean 11.9%). - [500 constituents scatter — market cap × 1-year return × index weight](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-scatter) - [Annual return distribution](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-annual-dist) — Arithmetic mean ~11.9% (total return); only 7 of 98 finished years landed within ±2% of the mean. - [Buy-year/sell-year annualized return matrix](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-annualized-matrix) — hold-period analysis of every entry/exit combination since 1928. - [Five-year rolling annualized return](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-rolling) — fewer than 10% of rolling 5-year windows since 1928 finished negative. - [Log year-over-year (bull/bear boundary)](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-sp500-logyoy) — 14 zero-line crossings since 1928. ### S&P 500 · § II The Arithmetic of a Few Days - [Daily return distribution vs the normal curve](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-sp500-daily-distribution) — 6,600+ trading days since 2000; mean 0.03%, fat tails far beyond the Gaussian assumption. - [Multiplicative contribution by extreme days](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-sp500-daily-extremes) — trading days since 2000 in five groups, each with its own compound multiple; cumulative return is decided by a handful of sessions. ### S&P 500 · § III Anchors of Valuation - [Trailing PE + Forward PE](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-forward-pe) — daily cap-weighted Σ(w·P)/Σ(w·trailingEps) trailing PE, paired with a 12-month blended-forward consensus PE published weekly back to 1990, plus a separately computed daily forward line. - [S&P 500 EPS (TTM)](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-eps) — 1871→present GAAP TTM earnings. - [S&P 500 Return on Equity](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-roe) — steady around 15% for two decades. - [Valuation / EPS driver decomposition](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-sp500-driver-decomp) — every calendar year since 1928 decomposed into (1+r_PE)·(1+r_EPS); classified as valuation-driven, EPS-driven, both, valuation-offset-by-EPS, or EPS-offset-by-valuation. - [Shiller CAPE](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-pe) — cyclically adjusted PE since 1871; historical mean ≈ 17×, today near the century high. - [AIAE — Aggregate Investor Allocation to Equities](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-aiae) — household equity allocation from the Fed Z.1 flow of funds; a sharper 10-year return predictor than CAPE. ### S&P 500 · § IV The Rhythm of Crisis - [Historical drawdowns](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-drawdown) — every major decline since 1929 with category, cause, and recovery days. - [Intrayear drawdown vs year-end return](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-intrayear-dd) — average intrayear -14%, year-end still positive on average. - [Realized volatility (20d / 60d)](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-volatility) — long-term median ~15%. - [VIX vs S&P 500](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-vix) — implied volatility above 30 typically marks crisis pricing. - [Bull-market breadth](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-sp500-breadth) — % of the 500 members closing above their own 50-day / 200-day moving averages; broad march vs narrow, giant-led rally. - [Monthly return heatmap with win probabilities](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-monthly) — November and April friendliest, September hardest. - [What gold did while stocks fell](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ubs-gold-dollar) — up in 8 of 11 US equity drawdowns since 1975, yet negative in real terms in 13 of the 28 years inflation ran above 3%. ### S&P 500 · § V Anatomy of the Index - [S&P 500 methodology](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-rules) — eligibility (market cap ≥ $22.7B effective 2025-07-01, FALR ≥ 0.75, four-quarter positive GAAP earnings), weighting, governance. - [GICS sector weights](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-sectors) — technology dominant. - [Magnificent 7 equal-weight index](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-m7) — AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, GOOGL, AMZN, META, TSLA, base 2022-01-03 = 100. (Deeper Mag-7 chronicle lives in the dedicated tab below.) - [Constituent change log](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-changes) — recent additions and removals. - [Railways were 63% of the market](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-sector-shift) — 1900 against today: 80% of the old market has shrunk away, and 70% of today's did not exist. Two snapshots, not a series. ### Nasdaq · § I The Long Lens of Nasdaq - [Nasdaq Composite — 100 at inception on Feb 5, 1971, now above 16,000](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-nasdaq-composite) - [Nasdaq log year-over-year](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-nasdaq-logyoy) - [Nasdaq 100 constituent return rankings — 1W / 1M / YTD / 1Y](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-nasdaq100-ytd) - [Nasdaq 100 at a glance — all 101 names](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ndx-scatter) — market cap on a log axis × 1-year return × QQQ weight, on one scatter. ### Nasdaq · § II The Arithmetic of a Few Days - [Nasdaq 100 daily distribution vs the normal curve](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ndx-daily-distribution) — higher mean than the S&P 500, and even heavier tails. - [Nasdaq 100 multiplicative extreme days](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ndx-daily-extremes) — the best and worst few dozen sessions since 2000 shaped both deep bear markets. ### Nasdaq · § III The Stretch of Valuation - [Nasdaq 100 forward PE](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ndx-forward-pe) — 12-month blended-forward consensus, weekly back to April 2001. The series opens on its own high, 85× in May 2001, when NDX forward earnings had collapsed; a separately computed daily line runs alongside it. - [Nasdaq 100 rerating × revision decomposition](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ndx-driver-decomp) — annual decomposition into forward-PE multiple change × forward-EPS revision, sortable, 2002-present. Complements the SPX trailing decomposition (the two indexes have asymmetric histories of EPS data; SPX uses trailing TTM back to 1928, NDX uses forward back to 2002). ### Nasdaq · § IV The Shape of the Nasdaq 100 - [QQQ annual returns since 1999](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-nasdaq100-annual) — ~15% average; -42% in 2008. - [Nasdaq 100 annual return distribution](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ndx-annual-dist) - [Nasdaq 100 annualized matrix](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ndx-matrix) - [Nasdaq 100 five-year rolling annualized return](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ndx-rolling) - [QQQ total return — price / dividend / buyback](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ndx-return-details) — within tech's total return, the buyback slice keeps growing. ### Nasdaq · § V Crisis Cadence in Tech - [Nasdaq 100 historical drawdowns (59 events)](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ndx-drawdown) — 2000-2002 cumulative -83%. - [Nasdaq 100 intrayear drawdown vs year-end return](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ndx-intrayear-dd) - [Nasdaq 100 realized volatility](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ndx-volatility) — median ~22%, systematically above S&P 500. - [VXN — CBOE Nasdaq-100 Volatility Index (2001+)](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ndx-vxn) - [Nasdaq 100 breadth](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ndx-breadth) — % of the 100 members above their 50-day / 200-day moving averages; how wide the tech rally runs. - [Nasdaq 100 monthly return heatmap](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ndx-monthly) ### Nasdaq · § VI Anatomy of the Index - [Nasdaq 100 top-25 holdings & cumulative weight](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-nasdaq100-weights) — top 7 names ~50% of index. - [Nasdaq 100 constituents & weight distribution](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-nasdaq100-companies) - [Nasdaq 100 constituent change log](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-ndx-changes) — annual reconstitution plus ad-hoc replacements. ### Semiconductors · § I The Thirty-Year Arc - [PHLX Semiconductor Index since 1994](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-semi-price) — daily closes with drawdown ribbon, the highest-amplitude industry in US equities. - [SOX annual return ledger](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-semi-annual) - [SOX annual return distribution](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-semi-annual-dist) — fat tails on both sides; right tail past +50% populated more than once. ### Semiconductors · § II The Heart of the Cycle - [SOX intrayear drawdown vs year-end return](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-semi-intrayear-dd) — average ~-20%, deeper than the S&P even in up years. - [Philadelphia Semiconductor forward PE](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-semi-fwdpe) — 12-month blended-forward consensus for SOX, weekly from January 2002; mean and percentile read across the clean 2011→present window, a roughly 9–30× corridor whose top was set in June 2024. ### Semiconductors · § III Inside the Index - [SOX 30 constituents by sub-industry](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-semi-composition) — fabless logic, foundry, memory, equipment, analog, RF, IDM. - [VanEck SMH ETF holdings](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-semi-smh) — 25 names; the disclosed top holdings cover ~70% of the fund. - [Memory cohort — DRAM/NAND/HBM split three ways](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-semi-memory) — MU is the lone US-listed pure memory play; Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and SK Hynix (000660.KS) sit on KOSPI. - [SOXX at the wrapper layer](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-semi-soxx) — iShares Semiconductor ETF: $29.6B AUM, 0.35% expense, 30 names, top-10 roughly 60% of weight. - [SOXX vs SMH — same label, different weighting paths](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-semi-soxx-compare) — 22 names overlap; SMH adds 3 foreign names, SOXX adds 8 specialty US names. Ten-year total return: SMH ~24×, SOXX ~20×. ### Semiconductors · § IV Cross-basis Ratios - [SOX/SPX, SOX/XLK, XLK/SPX rebased to 100 at YE-1999](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-semi-ratios) - [Memory & HBM valuation vs 1999](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-semi-memory-valuation) — MU and NVDA TTM PE log-scale chart against the 1999 dotcom-peak forward PE bands (CSCO 140×, ORCL 150×, SUNW 120×, MSFT 60×, INTC 50×); Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix as snapshot cards (illiquid TTM history). ### Information Technology (XLK) · § I The Arc Since 1998 - [XLK daily closes since December 1998](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xlk-price) — the curve crosses the dotcom peak in its first year and contains -83%, -50% (GFC), -34% (2022). - [XLK annual return ledger](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xlk-annual) - [XLK annual return distribution](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xlk-annual-dist) — mean similar to semis, variance a notch tighter (software damps the pure-hardware cycle). - [Information Technology forward PE since 1998](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xlk-fwdpe) — 12-month blended-forward consensus for S5INFT, weekly from August 1998: a dotcom top of 58.7× in March 2000, under 10× by November 2008. ### Information Technology (XLK) · § II Intrayear Amplitude - [XLK intrayear drawdown vs year-end return](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xlk-intrayear-dd) — 2000, 2008, 2022 each posted intrayear drops past -30%. ### Information Technology (XLK) · § III The Shape of Concentration - [XLK top holdings & cumulative weight](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xlk-holdings) — AAPL + MSFT + NVDA combine for more than 50% of the ETF; the most concentrated sector ETF in US equities. ### Information Technology (XLK) · § IV The Seam of 2018 - [2018 GICS communication-services reshuffle](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xlk-reclass) — GOOGL, META, NFLX moved out of Information Technology on 2018-09-24. ### Financials (XLF) · § I The Arc Since 1998 - [XLF daily closes since December 1998](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-fin-price) — -84% cumulative through 2008, the deepest scar in any US sector ETF. - [XLF annual return ledger](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-fin-annual) - [XLF annual return distribution](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-fin-annual-dist) — extreme left tail, the signature shape of a "crisis sector". - [Thirty years of Financials forward PE](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-fin-fwdpe) — 12-month forward consensus for S5FINL, monthly, 1996→present: the sector trades 11–18× most years, and the 2008-12 spike to 38× is an accounting shock rather than a valuation peak. ### Financials (XLF) · § II Intrayear Amplitude - [XLF intrayear drawdown vs year-end return](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-fin-intrayear-dd) — average close to broad market, but every decade or so writes the full down-leg in a single year. ### Financials (XLF) · § III 2008, The Plague Year - [Five vanished, five survived — 2008](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-fin-crisis) — Bear Stearns, Lehman, WaMu, Wachovia, AIG vs JPM, GS, MS, BAC, WFC. The editorial core of the Financials chronicle. ### Financials (XLF) · § IV Curve, Classification, Composition - [Yield curve × XLF](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-fin-rates) — 2y-10y spread since 1976 alongside XLF's trailing 12-month return. - [2023 GICS payments-into-financials reshuffle](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-fin-reclass) — Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, FIS, Fiserv moved into Financials on 2023-03-17. - [XLF top holdings](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-fin-holdings) — BRK.B + JPM together ~23%; V + MA ~13%. ### Consumer (XLY · XLP) · § I Two Consumer Curves - [What Consumer Discretionary and Consumer Staples contain](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-consumer-definitions) — the seven GICS industry groups behind the two labels, and the borderline names (Amazon discretionary, Costco staples, Target moved across in 2023). - [XLY daily closes since December 1998](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xly-price) — the discretionary ETF, log scale with drawdown ribbon; the 2008 housing collapse hit homebuilders and retailers first. - [XLP daily closes since December 1998](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xlp-price) — the staples ETF on identical axes; defensive means the ribbon is shallower, not that the line is higher. - [XLY/XLP ratio](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-consumer-ratio) — discretionary divided by staples as a daily risk-appetite gauge, recessions shaded; the all-time low printed on 2008-11-20. ### Consumer (XLY · XLP) · § II The Yearly Ledger - [XLY annual return ledger vs S&P 500](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xly-annual) - [XLP annual return ledger vs S&P 500](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xlp-annual) - [XLY annual return distribution](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xly-annual-dist) — the wider histogram in both directions. - [XLP annual return distribution](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xlp-annual-dist) — the narrow one; dividends are a larger share of total return here than in any other sector volume. ### Consumer (XLY · XLP) · § III Pricing Power and Extinction - [Twelve consumer compounders indexed to 100 on 1998-12-22](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-consumer-companies) — AMZN, HD, MCD, NKE, TJX, SBUX vs WMT, COST, PG, KO, PEP, CL, dividends reinvested; Amazon's own path includes a 94% drawdown. - [The retail extinctions](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-consumer-extinction) — Circuit City (2008), RadioShack (2015), Sears (2018), J.C. Penney (2020), Bed Bath & Beyond (2023): five former S&P 500 members that filed Chapter 11, beside WMT, COST, HD, TJX, AMZN. The editorial core of the Consumer chronicle. ### Consumer (XLY · XLP) · § IV Intrayear Amplitude - [XLY intrayear drawdown vs year-end return](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xly-intrayear-dd) - [XLP intrayear drawdown vs year-end return](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xlp-intrayear-dd) ### Consumer (XLY · XLP) · § V Boundaries and Holdings - [2023-03-17 GICS reshuffle: Target, Dollar General, Dollar Tree into Staples](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-consumer-reclass) — the same day the payment networks moved into Financials. - [XLY and XLP top holdings side by side](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-consumer-holdings) — a two-stock fund with a long tail against a fund spread across retail, beverages and household brands. ### Consumer (XLY · XLP) · § VI Two Valuation Lines - [Consumer Discretionary forward PE](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xly-fwdpe) — weekly consensus forward P/E for S5COND from 1990; recession-year earnings collapses lift the ratio instead of lowering it. - [Consumer Staples forward PE](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-xlp-fwdpe) — weekly consensus forward P/E for S5CONS from 1990; staples earnings barely move through a cycle, so the multiple mostly prices safety. ### Magnificent 7 · § I The Equal-Weight Lens - [Mag 7 equal-weight composite since 2022-01-03](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-mag7-index) ### Magnificent 7 · § II Market Dominance - [M7 as % of S&P 500 market cap, quarterly](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-mag7-concentration) — 13% in 2018 → 33%+ at year-end 2024. Quarterly series cross-checked across Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs ISG, and Apollo "Daily Spark". - [M7 AI capex — four builders, three returners](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-mag7-ai-capex) — all seven names side by side: latest-quarter cap-ex magnitudes, latest-fiscal-year operating-cash-flow allocation, and FCF/OCF conversion from pre-AI to today. ### Magnificent 7 · § III Per-Member Amplitude - [Per-member peak-to-date drawdown](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-mag7-drawdown) — MSFT held steadiest; TSLA widest swings; META fell -77% in 2022 then doubled in 14 months. ### Magnificent 7 · § IV Seven Names or One Trade - [60-day rolling pairwise correlation + 5-year average](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-mag7-correlation) - [AI leaders vs the 1999 dotcom peak](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-mag7-ai-valuation) — NVDA, MSFT, META, GOOGL TTM PE log-scale against CSCO 140×, ORCL 150×, SUNW 120×, MSFT-1999 60×, INTC 50× reference bands. Answers "is AI a Cisco repeat?" head-on with editorial honesty about the EPS-growth difference. ### Magnificent 7 · § V Ancestors of M7 - [Nifty Fifty (1972) → Four Horsemen (1999) → FANG (2013) → FAANG (2017) → Magnificent 7 (2023)](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-mag7-predecessors) — each generation's peak moment and at least one ≥ -40% drawdown. ### Top 10 Dynasties · the Top 10 of every decade since the 1920s An eight-chapter essay on the ten largest U.S. companies of each decade, built on a curated in-repo dataset. Landing pages under https://historyofmarket.com/dynasties/. - [Ten era portraits — decade × rank matrix, 1920s–2020s](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-top10-roster) - [The long-lived — on the list for three decades or more](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-top10-lineage) - [Who wore the crown — #1 by decade](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-top10-crowns) - [Industries that left the Top 10](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-top10-eclipse) - [Who sat next to whom — shared decades](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-top10-concurrents) - [What happened after they left the list — six exit pathways](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-top10-aftermath) - [Peak share of the index — AT&T 13% in 1929 vs Apple/Nvidia 7% in 2024](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-top10-spx-share) - [Peak trailing P/E of the giants, log axis — 18× midpoint to Cisco's 140×](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-top10-pe-at-entry) ### Other · § I Concentration - [Top 10 share of US equity market value, 1950 → today](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-cp-conc-top10) — 30% in 1963, 12% in 1993, 27% in 2023. Recomputed daily from live S&P 500 weights, calibrated to the 2023 anchor. - [The #1 stock vs the index since 1950](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-cp-conc-top3) — the largest stock lagged the index 4.3%/yr over 1950–2023; since 2014 the year-end top-3 names have mostly won. - [Large caps vs small caps since 2000](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-cp-conc-size) — Russell 1000 vs Russell 2000 total return, $100 each in May 2000. ### Other · § II Drawdowns & Recoveries - [Drawdown base rates by depth](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-cp-dd-base-rates) — current S&P 500 members since 1985: median max drawdown -74%, ~20% never regained the prior peak. - [Returns after the trough, by depth](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-cp-dd-forward-returns) — deeper falls bounce harder but recover to par less often. - [When stocks peak and when they bottom](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-cp-dd-timing) — peaks scatter; troughs cluster in 2000–02, 2008–09, 2020, 2022. - [Sixty months off the bottom](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-cp-dd-paths) — recovery paths after a ~75% drawdown; noisy individually, steady in median. - [NVDA vs INTC — two lives after one bubble](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-cp-dd-cases) — both peaked around the dot-com bust; peak, trough and return to the peak marked for each. ### Other · § III Issuance & Retirement - [US equity issuance vs retirement, 2000–2023](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-cp-iss-overview) — $9.7T issued, $14.0T retired; a net $4.3T returned. - [SBC and dilution by company size](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-cp-iss-deciles) — smallest revenue decile: SBC 3.5% of sales, 8.5% three-year dilution. - [SBC × buybacks four-quadrant return gap](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-cp-iss-quadrant) — low SBC + high buyback: 13.7%/yr (2021–2023); high SBC + low buyback: -0.1%. ### Other · § IV A Hundred Years of Lottery Tickets - [The mean is a fortune, the median is a loss](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-bes-skewness) — 29,754 stocks over their own lifetimes: mean buy-and-hold +30,621%, median -6.87%; 48.22% above zero, 41.17% above T-bills, 27.60% above the market. Static page: https://historyofmarket.com/latest/bes-skewness/ - [Ten decades of the median stock](https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-bes-decades) — median ten-year return averages 63.6% over the first six decades and 5.8% over the last four; the share beating the market pools at 35.62%. Static page: https://historyofmarket.com/latest/bes-decades/ ## Data APIs Every panel's underlying data is a cold static JSON served behind a global CDN. Schemas match the chart semantics; most price series are `{updated, series: [{date, close, volume?}, ...]}`, most annual series are `{updated, years: [{year, ret, ...}]}`. The manifest endpoint enumerates everything. | Endpoint | What's in it | | --- | --- | | [/api/_manifest.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/_manifest.json) | Catalog + `generated_at` timestamp | | [/api/_latest.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/_latest.json) | Current readings: latest value, unit and observation date per headline panel | | [/api/profile.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/profile.json) | Site profile — best-for queries, panel ↔ dataset bridge | | [/api/tools.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/tools.json) | Machine-callable tool list (MCP-style) | | [/api/latest/concentration.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/latest/concentration.json) | Market concentration: live top-1/3/10 weights, paper-basis extension to today, size race, #1-vs-index | | [/api/latest/dd-study.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/latest/dd-study.json) | Individual-stock drawdown study: base rates by depth, forward returns, timing, recovery paths | | [/api/latest/dd-cases.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/latest/dd-cases.json) | NVDA / INTC drawdown case series since 1990 | | [/api/sp500/century.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/century.json) | S&P 500 daily closes 1928→ (+ CAGR, start/latest) | | [/api/sp500/price.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/price.json) | S&P 500 daily price with volume | | [/api/sp500/annual-returns.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/annual-returns.json) | Annual price returns 1928→ | | [/api/sp500/annual-tr.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/annual-tr.json) | Annual total returns (price + dividends) | | [/api/sp500/monthly.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/monthly.json) | Monthly heatmap probabilities | | [/api/sp500/drawdowns.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/drawdowns.json) | Drawdown register 1929→ | | [/api/sp500/intrayear-dd.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/intrayear-dd.json) | Annual max drawdown vs year-end return | | [/api/sp500/daily-distribution.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/daily-distribution.json) | Daily return histogram since 2000 vs fitted normal curve, tail buckets | | [/api/sp500/daily-extremes.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/daily-extremes.json) | Multiplicative contribution of best/middle/worst trading days since 2000 | | [/api/sp500/volatility.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/volatility.json) | 20/60-day realized volatility | | [/api/sp500/vix.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/vix.json) | CBOE VIX daily close 1990→ | | [/api/sp500/pe.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/pe.json) | Shiller CAPE 1871→ | | [/api/sp500/breadth.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/breadth.json) | % of S&P 500 members above 50/200-day MA, daily, ~3-year window | | [/api/sp500/eps.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/eps.json) | S&P 500 TTM EPS 1871→ | | [/api/sp500/roe.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/roe.json) | S&P 500 return on equity | | [/api/sp500/forward-pe.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/forward-pe.json) | S&P 500 cap-weighted trailing PE (daily, monthly-archive seed) + 12-month blended-forward consensus PE (weekly back to 1990) + a separately computed daily forward line | | [/api/sp500/return-details.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/return-details.json) | Price / dividend / buyback contribution | | [/api/sp500/driver-decomp.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/driver-decomp.json) | Annual valuation × EPS driver decomposition 1928→ — (1+r_price) = (1+r_PE)·(1+r_EPS); classified pe / eps / both / opposite_pe / opposite_eps | | [/api/sp500/sectors.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/sectors.json) | GICS sector weights | | [/api/sp500/constituents.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/constituents.json) | Current 500 members with ticker / weight / sector / 1y return | | [/api/sp500/changes.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/changes.json) | Additions / removals log | | [/api/sp500/rules.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/sp500/rules.json) | S&P 500 methodology sections | | [/api/aiae.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/aiae.json) | Aggregate Investor Allocation to Equities | | [/api/nasdaq/composite.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/nasdaq/composite.json) | Nasdaq Composite daily close 1971→ | | [/api/nasdaq/100.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/nasdaq/100.json) | Nasdaq 100 derived panels bundle | | [/api/ndx/daily.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/ndx/daily.json) | NDX daily 1985→ | | [/api/ndx/price.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/ndx/price.json) | NDX price with volume | | [/api/ndx/annual-returns.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/ndx/annual-returns.json) | NDX annual returns | | [/api/ndx/annual-tr.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/ndx/annual-tr.json) | NDX annual total returns | | [/api/ndx/drawdowns.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/ndx/drawdowns.json) | NDX drawdown register | | [/api/ndx/intrayear-dd.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/ndx/intrayear-dd.json) | NDX intrayear DD vs TR | | [/api/ndx/daily-distribution.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/ndx/daily-distribution.json) | NDX daily return histogram since 2000 vs normal curve | | [/api/ndx/daily-extremes.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/ndx/daily-extremes.json) | NDX multiplicative extreme-day buckets since 2000 | | [/api/ndx/volatility.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/ndx/volatility.json) | NDX 20/60-day realized vol | | [/api/ndx/monthly.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/ndx/monthly.json) | NDX monthly heatmap | | [/api/ndx/rolling5y.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/ndx/rolling5y.json) | NDX 5-year rolling annualized return | | [/api/ndx/vxn.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/ndx/vxn.json) | CBOE VXN daily close 2001→ | | [/api/ndx/breadth.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/ndx/breadth.json) | % of Nasdaq 100 members above 50/200-day MA, daily, ~3-year window | | [/api/ndx/forward-pe.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/ndx/forward-pe.json) | 12-month blended-forward consensus PE for ^NDX, weekly 2001→, plus a separately computed daily forward line | | [/api/ndx/driver-decomp.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/ndx/driver-decomp.json) | Annual forward-PE rerating × forward-EPS revision decomposition, 2002→ | | [/api/ndx/changes.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/ndx/changes.json) | Nasdaq 100 additions / removals log | | [/api/qqq/return-details.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/qqq/return-details.json) | QQQ price / dividend / buyback | | [/api/dow/century.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/dow/century.json) | Dow Jones Industrial Average 1914→ | | [/api/semi/price.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/semi/price.json) | PHLX Semiconductor Index (^SOX) daily close 1994→ | | [/api/semi/annual-returns.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/semi/annual-returns.json) | SOX annual returns | | [/api/semi/annual-tr.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/semi/annual-tr.json) | SOX annual total returns | | [/api/semi/intrayear-dd.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/semi/intrayear-dd.json) | SOX intrayear drawdown vs year-end | | [/api/semi/composition.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/semi/composition.json) | SOX 30 constituents grouped by sub-industry | | [/api/semi/smh.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/semi/smh.json) | VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) holdings | | [/api/semi/ratios.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/semi/ratios.json) | SOX/SPX, SOX/XLK, XLK/SPX rebased to 100 at YE-1999 | | [/api/semi/memory-valuation.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/semi/memory-valuation.json) | MU + NVDA TTM PE history vs 1999 dotcom-peak forward PE bands; Samsung + SK Hynix snapshot cards | | [/api/xlk/price.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/xlk/price.json) | XLK (Information Technology Select Sector SPDR) daily 1998→ | | [/api/xlk/annual-returns.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/xlk/annual-returns.json) | XLK annual returns | | [/api/xlk/annual-tr.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/xlk/annual-tr.json) | XLK annual total returns | | [/api/xlk/intrayear-dd.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/xlk/intrayear-dd.json) | XLK intrayear drawdown vs year-end | | [/api/xlk/holdings.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/xlk/holdings.json) | XLK top holdings + cumulative weight | | [/api/xlk/reclass-2018.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/xlk/reclass-2018.json) | 2018-09-24 GICS communication-services reshuffle | | [/api/fin/price.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/fin/price.json) | XLF (Financials Select Sector SPDR) daily 1998→ | | [/api/fin/annual-returns.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/fin/annual-returns.json) | XLF annual returns | | [/api/fin/annual-tr.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/fin/annual-tr.json) | XLF annual total returns | | [/api/fin/intrayear-dd.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/fin/intrayear-dd.json) | XLF intrayear drawdown vs year-end | | [/api/fin/holdings.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/fin/holdings.json) | XLF top holdings + cumulative weight | | [/api/fin/crisis-2008.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/fin/crisis-2008.json) | 2008 financial crisis cohort — 5 disappeared (Bear/Lehman/WaMu/Wachovia/AIG) + 5 survived (JPM/GS/MS/BAC/WFC) | | [/api/fin/rates.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/fin/rates.json) | 2y-10y yield curve vs XLF trailing 12-month return | | [/api/fin/reclass-2023.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/fin/reclass-2023.json) | 2023-03-17 GICS payments-into-financials reshuffle | | [/api/consumer/xly-price.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/consumer/xly-price.json) | XLY (Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR) daily 1998→ | | [/api/consumer/xlp-price.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/consumer/xlp-price.json) | XLP (Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR) daily 1998→ | | [/api/consumer/ratio.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/consumer/ratio.json) | XLY ÷ XLP daily ratio with running highs and lows | | [/api/consumer/xly-annual-returns.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/consumer/xly-annual-returns.json) | XLY annual returns | | [/api/consumer/xlp-annual-returns.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/consumer/xlp-annual-returns.json) | XLP annual returns | | [/api/consumer/xly-annual-tr.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/consumer/xly-annual-tr.json) | XLY annual total returns | | [/api/consumer/xlp-annual-tr.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/consumer/xlp-annual-tr.json) | XLP annual total returns | | [/api/consumer/xly-intrayear-dd.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/consumer/xly-intrayear-dd.json) | XLY intrayear drawdown vs year-end | | [/api/consumer/xlp-intrayear-dd.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/consumer/xlp-intrayear-dd.json) | XLP intrayear drawdown vs year-end | | [/api/consumer/companies.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/consumer/companies.json) | 12 consumer companies indexed to 100 on 1998-12-22, dividends reinvested, weekly | | [/api/consumer/extinction.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/consumer/extinction.json) | Retail extinction ledger — 5 former S&P 500 members that filed Chapter 11 + 5 survivors | | [/api/consumer/definitions.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/consumer/definitions.json) | GICS definitions, industry groups and edge cases for the two consumer sectors | | [/api/consumer/reclass-2023.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/consumer/reclass-2023.json) | 2023-03-17 GICS move of TGT / DG / DLTR into Consumer Staples | | [/api/consumer/xly-holdings.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/consumer/xly-holdings.json) | XLY top holdings + cumulative weight | | [/api/consumer/xlp-holdings.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/consumer/xlp-holdings.json) | XLP top holdings + cumulative weight | | [/api/mag7/concentration.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/mag7/concentration.json) | M7 share of S&P 500 float-adjusted market cap, quarterly | | [/api/mag7/ai-valuation.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/mag7/ai-valuation.json) | NVDA + MSFT + META + GOOGL TTM PE history vs 1999 dotcom-peak forward PE bands | | [/api/mag7/predecessors.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/mag7/predecessors.json) | Nifty Fifty / Four Horsemen / FANG / FAANG / M7 lineage | | [/api/m7/index.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/m7/index.json) | Magnificent 7 equal-weighted composite | | [/api/recessions.json](https://historyofmarket.com/api/recessions.json) | NBER business-cycle peaks / troughs | ### Request conventions - CORS: wide open (`Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *`); 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ETag-aware `If-None-Match` revalidation supported — clients that keep a local cache save bandwidth. - Freshness: daily datasets update after each U.S. trading-day close, normally before the next session opens; weekly datasets update each weekend. The `_manifest.json` `generated_at` field is the authoritative wall clock. A handful of slow-moving series (M7 concentration: quarterly; SOX rebalances: ~annual; GICS-reclass / 2008-cohort: static historical events) carry their own per-dataset SLA. - Licence: Reuse with attribution is welcome; copying the work is not. Data (/api/**.json): CC BY 4.0. Charts, share images, embeds and quotes: free to reuse when credited "History of Market (historyofmarket.com)" with a link. No derivative or look-alike sites, no use of the brand names, no citation without the source. 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We do not re-host these datasets; we only chart and annotate them. - Price series — consolidated exchange closes for ^GSPC, ^NDX, ^IXIC, ^DJI, ^SOX, ^VIX, ^VXN, XLK, XLF and SMH; [Cboe Global Markets](https://www.cboe.com/tradable_products/vix/) for official VIX history. - Constituents & methodology — [S&P Dow Jones Indices](https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/) and [Nasdaq](https://www.nasdaq.com). - Forward PE — terminal data, 12-month forward consensus P/E. - Shiller CAPE & long-run earnings — [Robert Shiller (Yale) online dataset](http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/data.htm). - Long-range S&P 500 returns / EPS / PE / ROE — long-run annual and monthly market archives. - AIAE — [FRB Flow of Funds (Z.1)](https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/) via [FRED](https://fred.stlouisfed.org), L.213 / L.212 / L.210. - Yield curve — [FRED DGS2 and DGS10](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y). - Recessions — [NBER business-cycle dating committee](https://www.nber.org/research/business-cycle-dating); USREC series via [FRED](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USREC). - Per-name historical EPS (for valuation overlays) — company annual reports (diluted EPS) spliced with quarterly reports into a rolling 4-quarter TTM. - 2008-cohort, GICS reclasses, Mag-7 ancestors — primary-source SEC filings, S&P / MSCI methodology notes, financial-history references. ## Embedding charts on other sites Most panels on this site are also published as self-contained iframe widgets under `https://historyofmarket.com/embed/`. These embeds are **free for editorial, research, and educational use**. No API key, no signup, no rate limit; the underlying data refreshes on the same cadence as the canonical pages — daily-tier prices each trading day, weekly-tier macro/valuation, quarterly-tier (Bloomberg forward PE, M7 concentration, Z.1 AIAE) on each upstream release. - Embed gallery (humans + crawlers): https://historyofmarket.com/embeds/ — lists embeddable panels with copy-pasteable iframe snippets. A small number of table/event-driven panels are not yet wrapped; if the gallery omits a slug, the embed is not yet supported. - Direct embed URL pattern: `https://historyofmarket.com/embed/?lang=en|cn|tw|ja|es|ko|fr|de&theme=light|dark` - `` matches the on-page anchor without the `#panel-` prefix (e.g. `drawdown`, `pe`, `vix`, `nasdaq-composite`, `semi-price`, `xlk-holdings`, `fin-crisis`, `mag7-concentration`, `mag7-ai-valuation`, `sp500-driver-decomp`, `ndx-driver-decomp`). - `?lang=en|cn` (default `en`) and `?theme=light|dark` (default `light`). - Reference iframe snippet (keep the source line under the iframe — it is the citation): ```html

Source: S&P 500 valuation × EPS decomposition — History of Market

``` - Attribution: the `Source:` link under the iframe is the attribution contract — it lives on the host page (links inside an iframe are invisible to the host page's DOM), points at the panel's static landing page, and should stay visible. The thin `historyofmarket.com →` strip inside the embed is branding only. Editorial citation should still credit "History of Market — historyofmarket.com" in the surrounding prose. - Embed pages set `` and a canonical pointing back at the panel's static landing page, so embeds are not indexed as duplicates and link equity flows to the canonical chronicle pages. If a model is asked "can I embed this chart on my blog?" the answer is yes for any slug listed in the embed gallery — generate the iframe snippet above, swap the slug, and (optionally) flip the `lang` / `theme` parameters. Slugs are listed in the Contents section of this file and on the embed gallery page. If a slug is missing from the gallery, point the user at the canonical chronicle URL instead. ## Sister publications Three companion titles from the same editorial house: - [Dollar Liquidity](https://dollarliquidity.com) — macro liquidity terminal (12 daily indicators + DLI composite score). - [Market Temperature](https://lite.marketgrep.com) — daily market-sentiment temperature gauge. - [MarketGrep](https://app.marketgrep.com) — pre-/post-market sentiment briefings on iPhone and Android, with institutional holdings + magazine-grade share long-images. ## Citation example > "Through 2024, the Magnificent 7 — Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Tesla — held roughly 33% of S&P 500 float-adjusted market capitalisation, the highest top-seven concentration since the Nifty Fifty era (History of Market, 'Market dominance — M7 % of S&P 500 cap', https://historyofmarket.com/#panel-mag7-concentration, accessed 2026-05-12)."