Skip to main content

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of logarithmic returns (multiplied by 100) of time series used in the study

From: Global uncertainty and potential shelters: gold, bitcoin, and currencies as weak and strong safe havens for main world stock markets

 

SPX

FTSE

STOXX

DAX

NIKKEI

Gold

Bitcoin

Euro

Franc

Yen

Mean

0.045

0.002

0.012

0.017

0.030

0.023

0.237

− 0.012

− 0.001

− 0.007

SD

1.170

1.101

1.148

1.331

1.322

0.928

4.871

0.519

0.650

0.550

Skewness

− 1.168

− 0.893

− 1.208

− 0.774

− 0.095

− 0.207

− 0.328

0.021

10.473

0.302

Kurtosis

22.808

15.422

15.447

13.043

7.734

7.157

10.045

5.440

277.846

8.708

Min

− 12.765

− 11.512

− 12.191

− 13.055

− 8.253

− 6.254

− 34.236

− 2.413

− 2.475

− 3.161

Q1

− 0.342

− 0.476

− 0.462

− 0.550

− 0.588

− 0.452

− 1.618

− 0.307

− 0.300

− 0.304

Median

0.069

0.052

0.083

0.087

0.065

0.033

0.196

− 0.009

− 0.014

− 0.011

Q3

0.550

0.551

0.579

0.677

0.696

0.500

2.165

0.288

0.284

0.251

Max

8.968

8.667

8.070

10.414

7.731

5.477

34.605

3.029

17.141

3.771

  1. Source own study