While it hasn't been much fun writing about the stock markets for a long time now, the past four weeks have been especially gloomy as stock indices fell to new historical lows.
The Dow keeps setting new 12 year lows and its only the more severe reaction to the bursting of the dotcom bubble that has prevented the FTSE 100 and the NASDAQ from emulating that feat.
But while the US indices both fell by over six percent last week, our three semiconductor companies fared much better and NVIDIA even managed a small gain.
The major movement in NVIDIA's share price occurred around that start of CeBIT, but it would well have been the prevalence of NVIDIA's graphics in Apple's latest desktop range that provided the boost.
| Company | Listing | Share price 16/2/09 | Share price 23/2/09 | Share price 2/3/09 | Share price 9/3/09 | 7-day change | Market cap (bn) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD | AMD | 2.42 | 2.03 | 2.18 | 2.14 | -1.8% | 1.30 |
| Apple | AAPL | 99.16 | 91.20 | 89.31 | 85.30 | -4.5% | 75.96 |
| Avnet | AVT | 20.11 | 17.11 | 17.27 | 16.12 | -6.7% | 2.43 |
| Dell | DELL | 9.12 | 8.41 | 8.53 | 8.37 | -1.9% | 16.27 |
| GOOG | 357.68 | 346.45 | 337.99 | 308.57 | -8.7% | 97.29 | |
| HP | HPQ | 35.87 | 31.24 | 29.03 | 26.98 | -7.1% | 64.95 |
| IBM | IBM | 93.84 | 88.79 | 92.03 | 85.81 | -6.8% | 115.13 |
| Ingram Micro | IM | 12.67 | 11.88 | 10.89 | 9.95 | -8.6% | 1.64 |
| Intel | INTC | 13.88 | 12.78 | 12.74 | 12.41 | -2.6% | 69.02 |
| Microsoft | MSFT | 19.09 | 18.00 | 16.15 | 15.28 | -5.4% | 135.85 |
| Nvidia | NVDA | 8.31 | 7.61 | 8.28 | 8.39 | 1.3% | 4.51 |
| Tech Data | TECD | 19.63 | 18.24 | 17.29 | 16.60 | -4.0% | 0.83 |
| Yahoo | YHOO | 12.84 | 12.14 | 13.23 | 13.05 | -1.4% | 18.19 |
| Dow | .DJI | 7850.41 | 7365.67 | 7062.93 | 6626.94 | -6.2% | N/A |
| FTSE 100 | .FTSE | 4189.59 | 3889.06 | 3830.09 | 3530.73 | -7.8% | N/A |
| NASDAQ | .IXIC | 1534.36 | 1441.23 | 1377.84 | 1293.85 | -6.1% | N/A |
