Due to home bias, most of us invest only in the local stock market. The state of the local stock market is thus of significant importance to us. Have you ever wondered how the Singapore Exchange (SGX) would look like if it were a city? Assuming that each stock listed on the SGX is a building, and using the price of the stock as the height of that building, I plotted the view of SGX City in May 2014.

For comparison, I also plotted the view of it in May 2006.

In comparison, there are several more skyscrapers (namely, Lonza and the 3 Jardine stocks) in May 2014 compared to the solitary one (British & Malayan Trustees) in May 2006. The size of the city also got bigger, from 709 "square metres" (i....