Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Stock Market Update

By popular demand ... the S&P 500 was up almost 3% today. The NASDAQ was up 3.5%.

S&P 500 Click on graph for larger image in new window.

The first graph shows the S&P 500 since 1990.

The dashed line is the closing price today.

The S&P 500 is up almost 38% from the bottom (256 points), and still off 40% from the peak (632 points below the max).

Stock Market Crashes The second graph is from Doug Short of dshort.com (financial planner): "Four Bad Bears".

Note that the Great Depression crash is based on the DOW; the three others are for the S&P 500.