If you are an IBM Corp shareholder – and most of us are if we have pension funds, insurance policies or unit trusts with any US element – you will know this litany well, but for those that don’t, Reuter has compiled the 10-year record of the IBM share price: the share price range so far this year is $41.67 to $95.50; last year it was $48.75 to $100.37; in 1991, $83.50 to $139.75; 1990, $94.50 to $123.12; 1989, $93.37 to $130.87; 1988, $104.25 to $129.50; 1987, $102 to $175.87 – when, laughably, a few people started talking optimistically about when they might next be split, since they were getting a bit heavy; 1986, $119.25 to $161.875; 1985, $117.375 to $158.75, and 1984, $99 to $128.50.
