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Souk Al-Manakh stock market crash: Aug 1982 Kuwait: Black Monday: 19 Oct 1987 USA: Infamous stock market crash that represented the greatest one-day percentage decline in U.S. stock market history, culminating in a bear market after a more than 20% plunge in the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average. Among the primary causes of the chaos ...
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 ...
These events, including the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, caused substantial market volatility that resulted in the S&P 500 closing up or down 3 percent or more 29 times in the fourth quarter of 2008. [8] This included an increase of 11.6% on October 13, 2008, the index's highest daily percentage gain to date. [9]
Conversely, some periods, such as the decade from 2011 to 2020, saw higher-than-average returns, with years like 2013 and 2019 witnessing returns of over 30 percent. The stock market’s ...
1929–1949: Bear market. The stock market crash of 1929, or Black Tuesday, precedes, as well as causes the Great Depression. The Dow plunges 89% to 41.22 on July 8, 1932, thus erasing 33 years of gains, in just under three years. Although cyclical bull markets occur in the 1930s and 1940s, the index takes 22 years to surpass its previous highs.
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 ]
The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) is the most widely followed benchmark of the stock market in the U.S., encompassing the 500 largest companies in the country. Thanks to its broad base of component ...
2008-09-29 1,983.73 −199.61 −9.14 6 1987-10-26 298.90 −29.60 −9.01 7 1987-10-20 327.80 −32.40 −9.00 8 2008-12-01 1,398.07 −137.50 −8.95 9 1998-08-31 1,499.25 −140.43 −8.56 10 2008-10-15 1,628.33 −150.68 −8.47 11 2000-04-03 4,223.68 −349.15 −7.64 12 2020-03-09: 7,950.68 −624.94 −7.29 13 2001-01-02 2,291.86 −178.66