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A Report On The Stock Price Prices

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From the Figure 1, we can see before October 2015 the stock of JWN is stable increasing. However, during the recent half year, the stock price drops dramatically. In past four years, Nordstrom had good performance in its revenue. Even though it had slow sales growth in the past, the earning financial reports reflected the stable increasing stock price.
From 2011 to 2012, the stock price had four times decreasing. Especially, the price sharp fell in August. Comparing JWN’s stock with S&P 500 (Figure 1), it is obviously known that the whole market is also weak. That is why influence JWN’s stock price. Standard & Poor 's considered the government budget deficit of more than 11% of GDP and the net government debt rising to about 80% of GDP. both two is too high to the other AAA countries. Thus, S&P downgraded America 's credit rating from AAA to AA+ on 6 August 2011. The US had an AAA rating since 1941. This is the first time to downgrade US rating. Also Standard and Poor 's said that it could go down further than AA+, with Moody 's also warning of a potential downgrade of the government 's credit rating. Due to downgrading of US’s credit rating, the world shares, the market shares, and Nordstrom share price had more volatility in these months.
To analyze its 5 year running, from the Figure 2 we can see, Nordstrom’ share in high level from October 2014 to May 2015. Even the top point March 16, 2015 was increased by 78.10%. In February 19, 2015, Nordstrom reported its fourth

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