Fifty years is a long time, even by the standards of the rise and fall ofnations, but in the ever changing world (in which we live in) of pop culture both Bond and the Beatles should long ago have been passed over to the custody of historians for safekeeping.
There is little dispute, that in 2011, even with the riseof the E7 nations the most important economy and hence stock market is still that of the United States of America.