Wall Street Risk IQ

What is the longest period that the U.S. stock market (DJIA) was flat (did not close above its previous high) since 1900?

Which investment has yielded the highest returns historically (in US dollars) since 2000?

What was the longest period that bond investments outperformed stocks over the last 100 years?

Most people feel more pain from losses than pleasure from gains. On average, when making risky decisions, how do people value potential losses versus gains?

Currently Argentina has the 31st largest economy in the world. In 1900, where was Argentina ranked in worldwide economic strength?

What is the average annual U.S. stock return over the past 200 years when inflation is factored out (i.e., excluding inflation)? Approximately:

What is the average annual U.S. long-term bond return over the past 200 years, when inflation is factored out? Approximately:

Approximately how much paper wealth was lost by shareholders in the US stock markets between March 2000 and March 2002?

How many years did Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index take to surpass its all-time closing high set in December 1989?

Which one of the following bear markets encompassed the greatest percentage decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average?

Which one of the following bear markets was the least percentage decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, from peak to trough?

What was the percentage decline in the Nasdaq index (both Nasdaq 100 and Nasdaq Composite) from their high in 2000 to their low in 2002?

An increase in bond prices is likely to depress residential real estate values.

Stock performance, over the long term, is most highly correlated with?

How many years did the S&P 500 take to recover its peak value set at the height of the dot-com bubble in March 2000?

Stocks comprise what percentage of Money Market funds?

If daily stock market prices changed according to a statistical "normal distribution," then the odds of a 5 standard deviation price decline (a one-day decline of more than 4.4%) are less than 0.00003% — about once every 125 years. In fact, how many such price declines occurred in the United States from 1985 through 2024?

Since 1998, when a country has defaulted on its debt obligations, what have been investors' average recovery rates of the bonds' face value?

Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) was said to endanger the global financial system when it neared collapse in October 1998. What was the total value of all LTCM's outstanding positions?

How many Category 5 hurricanes have made landfall in the United States? Category 5 hurricanes are the most destructive class of storms, defined as having maximum sustained wind speeds over 155 mph.