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The 2015–2016 stock market selloff was the period of decline in the value of stock prices globally that occurred between June 2015 to June 2016. It included the 2015–2016 Chinese stock market turbulence, in which the SSE Composite Index fell 43% in just over two months between June 2015 and August 2015, [1] [2] which culminated in the devaluation of the yuan.
Launched by the Standard Statistics Company in 1926 as the successor to its 1923 233-stock weekly index, the Composite Stock Index was a daily 90-stock index that preceded the S&P 500. Following continual daily closure records from 17.66 in December 1927 to 31.71 in August 1929, the Wall Street crash of 1929 began a trend of daily closure ...
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 ...
5 tips for investors during election years. As presidential elections approach, it’s natural to be wary of stock market volatility and how stocks will react.
The strength of the S&P 500 Index has accurately predicted every presidential election since 1984 — Find out who will win according to this metric.
The stock market boasted a 13% annualized total return during the past decade.
From 1927 through 2016, the average excess stock market return (that is, the difference between the stock market return and the return on a risk-free investment) was 10.7% per year under Democratic presidents and -0.2% per year under Republican presidents. [26]
Based on the annual seasonality chart during US midterm election cycle for the past 71 years, S&P 500 (SPX) is expected to experience increasing volatility in a prolonged trading range.