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Research tells us that the stock market tends to follow a presidential cycle. Stock prices go up during a presidential election year like 2012 by an average of about 8 percent.
US Bear market of 2007–2009. The US bear market of 2007–2009 was a 17-month bear market that lasted from October 9, 2007 to March 9, 2009, during the 2007–2008 financial crisis. The S&P 500 lost approximately 50% of its value, but the duration of this bear market was just below average.
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 ...
The efficacy of technical analysis is disputed by the efficient-market hypothesis, which states that stock market prices are essentially unpredictable, [5] and research on whether technical analysis offers any benefit has produced mixed results. [6] [7] [8] Technical analysts or chartists are usually less concerned with any of a company's ...
Getty Images The global economy is a perpetual motion machine, but U.S. stock exchanges do take breaks: Independence Day is one of nine holidays on which the markets are shuttered (in addition to ...
The more upbeat 2024 forecasts come as the bull market charges on, with the S&P 500 up 3.2% in the last month and 22.6% this year. Several risks persist, though, with the upcoming US presidential ...
English: This file gives a log-log plot of the "capital distribution curves" at ten year intervals (December 31 of 1929, 1939, ..., 2009), showing the (log) ranked market capitalizations as a fraction of the overall market capitalization plotted a function of their (log) market ranks. (Here the largest capitalization is defined to have rank 1 ...
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