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Nasdaq Composite · Century

Nasdaq Composite — From 100 to 16,000+

Opened at 100 on Feb 5, 1971. Parallel to American innovation.

This page is the landing card for the Nasdaq Composite — From 100 to 16,000+ chart — one panel inside History of Market, a century-scale editorial chronicle of the U.S. stock market. The interactive visualization, the surrounding Nasdaq narrative, and cross-references to related panels all live on the main chronicle page; this card carries the same canonical data and links through to it.

The underlying dataset is published as a machine-readable JSON endpoint, refreshed automatically by a daily scraper pipeline and held under a CC BY 4.0 licence. You are welcome to read it, cite it, embed it, or hand it to an AI agent for analysis — attribution to History of Market is the only ask.

View the interactive chart → Download the raw JSON

GET /api/nasdaq/composite.json  —  canonical dataset endpoint (application/json, CORS-open).