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The Dow Jones Industrial Average, an American stock index composed of 30 large companies, has changed its components 59 times since its inception, on May 26, 1896. [1] As this is a historical listing, the names here are the full legal name of the corporation on that date, with abbreviations and punctuation according to the corporation's own usage.
Between January 1973 and December 1974, the average lost 48% of its value in what became known as the 1973–1974 stock market crash, closing at 577.60 on December 6, 1974. [50] The nadir came after prices dropped more than 45% over two years since the NYSE's high point of 1,003.16 on November 4, 1972.
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 ...
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Image source: Getty Images. Here's what history has to say. The 62.7% climb over the past two years is about average for the first two years of a bull market since the end of World War II.
On the one hand, what a month. But on the other, what a week. Last Friday, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) and Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) closed just off record highs, with the former above its 6,100 mark after ...
Stock market indices may be categorized by their index weight methodology, or the rules on how stocks are allocated in the index, independent of its stock coverage. For example, the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 Equal Weight each cover the same group of stocks, but the S&P 500 is weighted by market capitalization, while the S&P 500 Equal Weight places equal weight on each constituent.
As an example, the S&P 500 has declined in 7 of the 10 Septembers since 2014, or 70% of the time. And the declines have often been brutal, especially in recent years, as listed below.