The historical stock prices of these companies were obtained from the following two excellent internet resources.... Google Finance and MarketWatch Big Charts.
These 10 US Cable TV Systems Companies had their average stock prices drop by a huge 49% from December 31, 2007 during President Bush's second Presidential term, to March 6, 2009, very early in President Obama's first term, which was the very lowest point for the overall stock market due to the spillover effects resulting from the disastrous 2008 Financial Meltdown.
But since March 6, 2009, the average stock prices of these same 10 US Cable TV Systems Companies have increased by a robust 360% through January 28, 2014.
Clearly, the investors in and employees of a clear majority of these 10 US Cable TV Systems Companies must be pleased with the impact of actions taken by both the Obama Administration and the US Fed to successfully rescue the US economy from its extremely weakened state caused by the 2008 US financial meltdown.
Below here are the market prices of each of these 10 US Cable TV Systems Companies on January 28, 2014, on March 6, 2009, and on December 31, 2007, sorted by Percentage Increase from March 6, 2009 to January 28, 2014:
| Market | Market | ||||||
| Price | Price | ||||||
| % | % | ||||||
| Change | Change | ||||||
| Market | Market | Market | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | |||
| Price | Price | Price | to | to | |||
| Cable TV Systems | 1-28-14 | 3-6-09 | 12-31-07 | 1-28-14 | 3-6-09 | ||
| Liberty Global | 82.95 | 8.78 | 26.68 | 845% | -67% | ||
| Time Warner Cable | 133.71 | 18.06 | 27.60 | 640% | -35% | ||
| Dish Network | 55.40 | 9.27 | 33.95 | 498% | -73% | ||
| Viacom | 82.26 | 13.92 | 43.92 | 491% | -68% | ||
| Discovery Communications | 77.96 | 15.12 | 23.12 | 416% | -35% | ||
| DIRECTV | 69.05 | 19.68 | 23.12 | 251% | -15% | ||
| Cablevision Systems | 16.35 | 4.94 | 11.69 | 231% | -58% | ||
| TiVo Inc | 12.19 | 6.50 | 8.34 | 88% | -22% | ||
| Crown Media Holdings | 3.03 | 1.62 | 6.50 | 87% | -75% | ||
| Shaw Communications | 22.14 | 14.05 | 23.68 | 58% | -41% | ||
| Average % Change all 10 | 360% | -49% |
