The U.S. stock market has been around since the founding of the nation. In the beginning, it wasn't very diversified, but that's changed dramatically over time. In January 2019, Visual Capitalist visualized how much its compensation has changed over the preceding 22 decades. Here's their chart:
Today, if we were to catch the chart up through the end of 2024, it would show a new surge for the Information Tech and Communication sectors of the market, similar to the inflation phase of Dot Com Bubble from 1998 to 2000. As the chart shows, that bubble went on to deflate from 2000 through 2003. At the end of 2024, the new surge in these sectors led by the so-called Magnificent 7 stocks was still growing it its share of the capitalization of the entire U.S. stock market.
Labels: data visualization, stock market
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