Talk:Nifty Fifty/Archive 1

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Does anybody know if there's an article hiding in any of this? If so, could they try to extract it? If not, I guess it should be deleted. --Camembert

It looks like it may be a copyright infringement anyway (although even if it isn't, it still isn't an encyclopaedia article). This page is now listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. --Camembert

Yes, Virginia, there is an encyclopedia article here.

Especially since it also refers to the Indian Nifty 50 Ben Finn 18:15, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Who picked up Nifty-Fifty?

Does anybody know who had chosen fifty 'long-position' stocks in 1970's?? J. Eun 19:59, 12 September 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaluza81 (talk • contribs)

No bankruptcies in the Nifty-Fifty?

The 2nd paragraph states: "The fifty are credited with propelling the bull market of the early 1970s. Most are still solid performers, although a few are now defunct or otherwise worthless." I can't detect any outright bankruptcies in the Nifty Fifty group since the 1950s, only takeover targets, so I suggest to delete the part "... a few are now defunct or otherwise worthless". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.103.207.10 (talk) 13:33, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

I don't think it was ever a "benchmarking index," so I'm removing that language.

I've removed two statements that indicate that the name "Nifty Fifty" ever referred to an "historic benchmarking index." I don't think it did. Because the first statement doesn't have any citation, and because the second one has a bad citation (the cited source doesn't support the statement), I'm removing them rather than merely giving them a warning tag.

The first statement is

“ In the United States, Nifty Fifty refers to the historic benchmarking index that was used in the 1960s to reflect the stock index. ”

The second is

“ The American nifty fifty is now defunct as it was subsequently replaced by the S&P 500 Index. ”

It contain a generic citation to a whole book, I book I know well: Burton Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street. This book does contain a discussion of the Nifty Fifty "craze," and it clearly is only an informal name for "four dozen or so" stocks. There is no reference to any Nifty Fifty "index."

The S&P 500 began in 1957. The predecessor to the S&P 500 was not called the "Nifty Fifty." It was called "the S&P Composite Index," and in 1957 it had 90 stocks in it, not fifty. I'm not sure when the S&P Composite was finally discontinued; there were a few years of overlap. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:05, 1 March 2018 (UTC)