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1 day ago - The broad market S&P 500 dipped 0.74% and closed at 6,845.50, while the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.76% and ended at 23,241.99. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 303.77 points, or 0.63%, and settled at 48,063.29.

April 21, 2022 - Stock market data coverage from CNN. View US markets, world markets, after hours trading, quotes, and other important stock market activity.

3 days ago - U.S. Stock market today: The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 282 points, or 0.58%, to 48,428. The S&P 500 slid 0.47% to 6,897. The Nasdaq Composite led losses, falling 0.65% to 23,439.

On the following day, Black Tuesday, the market dropped nearly 12 percent. By mid-November, the Dow had lost almost half of its value. The slide continued through the summer of 1932, when the Dow closed at 41.22, its lowest value of the twentieth century, 89 percent below its peak. The Dow did not return to its pre-crash heights until November 1954. Chart 1: Dow Jones Industrial Average Index daily closing price, January 2, 1920, to December 31, 1954.

3 weeks ago - This is a list of stock market crashes and bear markets. The difference between the two relies on speed (how fast declines occur) and length (how long they last). Stock market crashes are quick and brief, while bear markets are slow and prolonged.

2 days ago - Per the chart below, investors can see that in both of these instances, the index eventually declined sharply after reaching peak valuation levels. ... To supplement the analysis above, let's also take a look at the S&P 500 Shiller CAPE ratio. This figure accounts for corporate earnings over a 10-year period relative to current stock prices.

July 27, 2022 - Discover the U.S. markets today with Fox Business. See the trending stocks in the USA stock market and today’s stock market results.

1 month ago - The number of market crashes depends on how far back we go in history and how we identify them. Here, we turn to data that former Morningstar Director of Research Paul Kaplan compiled for the book Insights into the Global Financial Crisis. Kaplan’s data includes monthly US stock market returns going back to January 1886 and annual returns over the period from 1871 to 1885. In the chart below, each bear-market episode is indicated with a horizontal line, which starts at the episode’s peak cumulative value and ends when the cumulative value recovers to the previous peak.

The firm, led by legendary market bear Jeremy Grantham, gave some ideas on where to invest instead. ... From homebuilding to trucking, major parts of the US economy are in deep trouble. The weakness could drag the whole country into a recession. ... Last month it was circularity. This month, it's depreciation. ... Thursday saw a bizarre reversal of what had been a stellar stock rally.

2 weeks ago - A rough conversion from the Yale survey result to the question we are asking might be to assign a 5% probability of a crash to those who answered “lower than 10%” and a 20% probability to those who estimated it above 10%. This gives us a blended probability of crash of 15% over the next six months, or a 30% probability of a “crash” in the next 12 months. ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity gave estimates of 10%, 6% and 7% respectively. Their estimates were largely based on the historical frequency of such declines, slightly conditioned for current market valuation levels. Following the lead of the LLMs, let’s take a look at U.S. stock market history. The chart and table below are based on daily U.S.

U.S. Stock market today: The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 282 points, or 0.58%, to 48,428. The S&P 500 slid 0.47% to 6,897. The Nasdaq Composite led losses, falling 0.65% to 23,439.

March 22, 2025 - The S&P 500 chart with my projection for what might happen next Credit: ADVFN · Unless there is a sudden outbreak of sanity, we are in for an almighty crash. It’s extremely hard to judge just how deep that crash will be. Since the global financial crisis, market drivers have evolved from free-market dynamics to central banking policies, and now to political chaos.

5 days ago - Indexing brings capital to the largest names, regardless of fundamentals. If money pours into the same stocks day after day, the price looks solid even if the foundation weakens. Flow dominance conceals underlying deterioration. Markets can look healthy until they crash.

This interactive chart shows detailed daily performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average during the bear market of 1929. Although it was the crash of 1929 that gained the most attention, stocks continued to fall for another three years until bottoming out in July of 1932.

2 weeks ago - The Associated Press also quoted an analyst of the Australian finance company OFX as saying, "A blend of shocks have sent the markets into a frenzy on what may only be described as 'Black Monday' ... A combination of a Russia vs. Saudi Arabia oil price war, a crash in equities, and escalations in coronavirus woes have created a killer cocktail to worsen last week's hangover." On the following day of trading, US stocks recouped some of the losses which happened on Monday, rising by more than 4%. This was attributed to a potential fiscal stimulus, such as a potential 0% payroll tax, being proposed by US President Donald Trump.

Yahoo Finance's list of top losing stocks, includes share price changes, trading volume, intraday highs and lows, and day charts for stocks posting the largest losses today

April 5, 2022 - A true market crash, as opposed to a dip or correction, can be brutal. The chart below shows bear market declines since World War II. Each blue line represents a 20% or worse drop in the market since that time and their subsequent recovery in days. The average bear market cuts stock prices by 35.8% from peak to trough and these declines typically last about a year and a half.

Equities: The price of equity securities may rise or fall due to the changes in the broad market or changes in a company's financial condition, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. Equity securities are subject to "stock market risk" meaning that stock prices in general may decline over short or extended periods of time.