EF-0. Economy Stats with links to original sources. Links to LBN jobs threads thru 5/2/25

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6. EF-6. U.S. Dollar Index (DXY). Also, Oil Prices

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{#} U.S. Dollar Index (DXY)

This is the value of a dollar compared to a weighted basket of foreign currencies
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/DXY/historical
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Dollar_Index
# Problem: on 9/8/12, I found the above link only goes back to about 2007.
# Using the last closing before inauguration (G.W. Bush inaugurated noon Jan 20, 2001, Obama at noon, Jan 20, 2009)
. . # When Clinton left office and G.W. Bush took office, the U.S. Dollar Index was at 110.66 (1/19/01 close).
. . # When G.W. Bush left office and Obama took office, the U.S. Dollar Index was at 85.37 (1/19/09 close).
. . # When Obama left office and Trump took office, the U.S. Dollar Index was at 101.17 (1/19/17 close)
. . # As of 2/3/20 close, with Trump in office for 3 years and 2 weeks, the U.S. Dollar Index was at 97.88.
. Democratic Presidents are in BOLD, Republican presidents are in FAINT in the below
. . # Thus under G.W. Bush, the dollar index FELL 22.8%, from 110.66 to 85.37 (1/19/09 close).
. . # Under Obama, it ROSE 18.5% from 85.37 to 101.17 (1/19/17 close).
. . # Under Trump, it has FALLEN 3.3% from 101.17 to 97.88 (2/3/20 close).

(You often hear right-wingers saying that Obama and the Fed is destroying our currency by out-of-control spending and printing trillions of dollars. Well, doesn't seem so, considering the rise of the dollar under Obama compared to other currencies, and the lowest inflation since the 1930's)

FRED Nominal Advanced Foreign Economics U.S. Dollar Index: Major Currencies (DTWEXAFEGS),
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DTWEXAFEGS

FRED Nominal Advanced Foreign Economics Trade Weighted U.S. Dollar Index: Major Currencies (DTWEXM), beginning January 1, 1973 but discontinued 12/31/2019 (indexed to Jan 1973 = 100)
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?id=DTWEXM


{#} Oil Prices

NYMEX Crude Oil Front Month
http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Tearsheets/Summary?s=CL.1:NYM

Below are some key values I chose. Remember that the data here is weekly closings, so actual peaks and valleys based on daily closes -- let alone interday values -- likely are higher and lower respectively than shown.

Later, 1/27/19 -- the above link doesn't provide data (other than the latest close), just a graph. And one has to read the graph. So I used the FRED link below to get a value I was missing.

West Texas Intermediate Crude
7/04/08 $145.08 -- highest weekly closing value (also the Bush era high)
1/16/09 $ 36.51 -- lowest weekly closing value
4/29/11 $113.93 -- highest weekly closing value under Obama
2/24/12 $109.77 -- highest weekly closing value in 2012
9/06/13 $110.53 -- highest weekly closing value in 2013
6/2014` $107.26 -- Peak price of 2014 - it occurred in June, according to a Bloomberg 12/11/14 article
1/20/17 $52.33 -- Inauguration Day. Obama left office, Trump took office.
2/03/20 $51.04 -- the latest as of this writing. (see link above, or the top of http://finance.yahoo.com )


Also this: FRED data - "Crude Oil Prices: West Texas Intermediate (WTI) http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/DCOILWTICO/
by default a graph is displayed, it goes back all the way to 1/2/1986. To see the data, look just above the left side of the graph and it will have the latest "Observation". Click on the " (+ more) " next to the data and then click on the blue "View All" button.

Also this: Barchart.com - has commodity graphs for several commodities, including oil, out to 25 years. On the left side links, about 10 lines down from the top, just below the "Enter ticker symbol" box, see the "Select a commodity" box.

Here's another: http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/crude-oil/all/
Will look some more. The above shows a peak of $116 in late August 2013 ( its probably the Brent oil price, not the West Texas Intermediate Crude price that is more commonly quoted in the U.S., so I'm not using it in the below )