Talk:Nifty Fifty

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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 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)