A Year of Minimal Declines So Far
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 06:06PM After 35 trading days, the biggest one-day decline that the S&P 500 has seen all year is still just the -0.69% fall on February 10th. We went back 50 years and found the biggest one-day declines for the S&P 500 through the first 35 trading days of every year to see how this year stacks up.
Surprisingly, there have actually been three years out of the last 50 that have had even smaller one-day declines through the first 35 trading days than this year. In 1963, the biggest decline for the S&P 500 through the first 35 trading days was -0.68%. In 1995, the biggest fall over the first 35 trading days was -0.67%, and in 1964, the biggest fall was just -0.61%. As shown below, the index saw big returns over the remainder of all three of these years. Hopefully the same occurs this year as well!
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