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S&P 500 PE Ratio at 140: Happy Halloween!

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

S&P 500 PE Ratio Hits 140x
This came out of the New York Federal Reserve.

Some numbers for comparison: at the height of the dot com bubble the S & P 500 Price – Earnings ratio was around 45. A market bottom looks like a Price -Earnings ratio under 15 times. We are at nearly 10 times that.

So it’s true that halloween is the scariest time of the year.

http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/directors_charts/ipage20.pdf