by Bryan Taylor | Apr 23, 2018 | Blog, Historical, Insights
Although, few people may realize it, we may be seeing the first generation of kids that will not need to know how to drive a car. With all the changes that are going on in the automobile industry, this is a distinct possibility. Not since the introduction of cars over...
by Bryan Taylor | Apr 22, 2018 | Blog, Data, GFD in Action, GFD in Research, GFD News
Global Financial Data has added the most extensive collection of data on sector market caps available anywhere.Global Financial Data divides the stock market into twelve sectors. The 12 sectors include 11 sectors similar to the 11 sectors in the GICS, but adds a...
by Michelle Kangas | Apr 17, 2018 | Blog
Global Financial Data has added data on individual stocks from the Copenhagen stock market between 1871 and 1937 to the database. This provides a history of Danish stocks that was previously unavailable. In the midst of putting together this data, we discovered...
by Bryan Taylor | Apr 10, 2018 | Blog, Data, Economics, Historical, Insights
The Course of the Exchange made the first attempt to break the stock market down into sectors in 1811 when it expanded its coverage of stocks to include shares other than the three sisters, the Bank of England, South Sea stock and East India Company that dominated the...
by Bryan Taylor | Apr 2, 2018 | Blog, Historical, Insights
Global Financial Data is completing its collection of data for the English stock market. The UK stocks database includes data on 25,000 companies from 1657 when the East India Company started trading in London to 1985. GFD has written two other articles, “Four...
