Chart o’ the Day: S&P 500 current vs historical valuation

The below snapshot of today’s S&P 500 valuation on sixteen metrics comes to us from Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s August 2014 RIC Report. US large cap stocks are currently at or above their historic valuation on nine of sixteen popular metrics.

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Source:

The RIC in Pictures, August 2014
Bank of America Merrill Lynch – August 15th 2014

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