Performance Chart: Do Corporate Scandals Really Shake Up Wall Street? A Market's View Of The Enron Collapse

On Monday, October 23, 2006, Jeffrey Skilling was sentenced to 24 years and 4 months for his crimes that led to Enron's 2001 collapse. From 10/22/01-10/23/06, the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000, the only broad U.S. stock market index, has had a cumulative return of 30.86%; the Dow Jones Wilshire Global Total Market Index gained 53.26% and the Dow Jones Wilshire U.S. Oil & Gas Index is up 100.46%. The Dow Jones-AIG Energy Sub-index, a commodity index that measures crude oil, heating oil, natural gas and unleaded gasoline, is up 37.09% in the same time period.