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The benchmark stock market index on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange fell by 9.3%. [265] The MERVAL on the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange fell 9.5% to 19.5% on the week. [266] 12 March was the second time, following 9 March drop, that the 7%-drop circuit breaker was triggered since being implemented in 2013. [236]
While the S&P 500 was first introduced in 1923, it wasn't until 1957 when the stock market index was formally recognized, thus some of the following records may not be known by sources. [ 1 ] Largest daily percentage gains [ 2 ]
While the index reached a new closing peak of 3,386.15 on February 19, 2020, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and recession saw it lose 10% of its value in the next six trading days, its fastest drop from a new peak to date. [38] [39] At the trough of the 2020 stock market crash on March 23, 2020, the index had fallen 34% from its February peak.
The New York Stock Exchange reopened that day following a nearly four-and-a-half-month closure since July 30, 1914, and the Dow in fact rose 4.4% that day (from 71.42 to 74.56). However, the apparent decline was due to a later 1916 revision of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which retroactively adjusted the values following the closure but ...
Top news and what to watch in the markets on Wednesday, December 30, 2020.
The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), widely viewed as a barometer for the entire U.S. stock market, has advanced 26% year to date. Enthusiasm about artificial intelligence (AI) has also played a big ...
A secular bull market is a period in which the stock market index is continually reaching all-time highs with only brief periods of correction, as during the 1990s, and can last upwards of 15 years. A cyclical bull market is a period in which the stock market index is reaching 52-week or multi-year highs and may briefly peak at all-time highs ...
The U.S. benchmark S&P 500 stock index fell more than 4% on Wednesday after a dire warning on the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus.