The S&P 500 Index and Dow Jones
Industrial Average both declined for the quarter respectively, while the Nasdaq Composite Index managed a modest gain based largely on its sharp rise in January.
The S&P 500 lost 0.13 % and the Dow Jones
Industrial Average declined by 0.10 %, while the Nasdaq was flat.
Over the first six weeks of the year, the Dow Jones
Industrial Average declined 10 %, as the prospect of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, a slump in oil prices, and concerns about economic conditions in Europe and China caused the long - running bull market to stumble.
In the midst of early February's market turmoil that saw the Dow Jones
Industrial Average decline by 1,175 points — its largest point drop in one day ever — and the S&P 500 enter correction territory (a decline of 10 percent or more from its previous high), a handful of investment products fell, essentially, to zero.
The Dow Jones
Industrial Average declined 0.6 % for the week to settle at 24,311.19.
«For most people and nonprofit institutions, rebalancing makes sense as a control for risk,» Kass said, pointing out that the Dow Jones
industrial average declined 55 percent between October 2007 and March 2009.
The Dow Jones
Industrial Average declined 174.07 points, or 0.7 %, to close at 23,924.98.
On Monday, October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones
Industrial Average declined 22.6 % in the largest single - day drop in history.
Not exact matches
Concern inflation was seeping into the economy triggered a
decline in the Dow Jones
Industrial Average that reached 6.3 percent at its lowest level.
The Dow Jones
industrial average shed 1,175.21 points to 24,345.75 and briefly
declined more than 1,500 points.
U.S. stocks have opened the first full week of 2015 with a steep
decline, with the Dow Jones
industrial average dropping 331 points, as falling oil prices weighed on the energy sector.
The downtrend in many of these stocks was exacerbated Friday after the Dow Jones
industrial average dropped nearly 666 points, marking the index's sixth - largest points
decline ever.
In a strategy session with callers after the Dow Jones
industrial average's several - hundred - point
decline, CNBC's Jim Cramer went bullish on the stock of e-commerce colossus Amazon.
North American investors arrived at work Monday morning and were greeted by a 1,000 - point sell - off in the Dow Jones
Industrial Average, marking the blue chip index's biggest intra-day
decline ever.
The session in Asia followed overnight
declines on Wall Street where the Dow Jones
industrial average fell more than 400 points.
Both the Dow Jones
Industrial Average and S&P 500 index were on track on Thursday for their biggest two - week percentage
declines since August 2011.
NEW YORK (AP)--
Declines in several stocks in the Dow Jones
industrial average are pulling the index lower in midday trading.
In the United States, the Dow Jones
Industrial Average (DJIA) dropped 22.6 percent in a single trading session, a loss that remains the largest one - day stock market
decline in history.2 At the time, it also marked the sharpest market downturn in the United States since the Great Depression.
The small - cap Russell 2000 ended the session flat, while both the Dow Jones
Industrial Average and S&P 500 settled with modest 0.2 %
declines.
The Dow Jones
Industrial Average fell 218 points to 24,189, the Nasdaq was off 25 and the S&P 500
declined by 14.
The Dow Jones
Industrial Average fell 420 points, with most of that
decline occurring after Trump announced the tariffs.
Instead, the Dow Jones
Industrial Average put in a weekly
decline of 0.6 %, the Nasdaq Composite Index lost 0.4 %, and the S&P 500 index closed virtually unchanged for the five - session stretch.
The Dow Jones
Industrial average has now
declined for three consecutive quarters, only the third such string of losses in 40 years.
There has been speculation in some corners that the inverse products helped fuel this month's sudden stock slump, which saw the Dow Jones
Industrial Average have its largest one - day point loss ever and put the S&P 500 in correction territory (a
decline of more than 10 percent from its peak) for the first time since 2015.
A recent
decline in the US equities market erased the gains of many weeks in a matter of days in both the Dow Jones
Industrial Average and the S&P 500 indices.
Furthermore, markets always
decline faster than they rise, just as the Dow Jones
Industrial Average surrendered 10 years of gains in just the 2 - year
decline from 2007 to 2009.
This week's volatility brought on by testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Capitol Hill, featuring a 300 - point
decline in the Dow Jones
Industrial Average DJIA, +0.02 % on Tuesday and an even larger
decline on Wednesday, is just the latest evidence of uncertainty.
E.g., if an NYSE Rule 80B trading halt, triggered by a 10 % or a 20 %
decline in the Dow Jones
Industrial Average, has been declared in the primary securities market, and trading in the primary securities market has recommenced, then the 10.0 % or 20.0 % Price Limits shall become inapplicable, respectively.
If enough companies experience
declines in their stock prices, the whole market, or the key indexes (e.g., Dow Jones
Industrial Average, S&P 500) many people equate with the market, will go down.
For the fund - flows week the Dow Jones
Industrial Average Price Only Index -LRB--0.31 %) witnessed the largest
decline of the broad - based indices.
U.S. Equities — U.S. equity markets all
declined this week, with the Dow Jones
Industrial Average falling 0.68 % to close at 21,798.
While for the fund - flows week the Dow Jones
Industrial Average Price Only Index -LRB--0.17 %) witnessed a
decline as
industrials and materials stocks weighed late this past flows week, the NASDAQ Composite Price Only Index (+1.35 %) and the S&P 500 Price Only Index (+0.83 %) posted returns in the black.
It was more than three months earlier than then that the Dow Jones
Industrial Average (Ticker Symbol: DJIA) experienced a panic - induced
decline that was as bad as Thursday's.
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The Dow Jones
Industrial Average was driven lower by a 1.9 percent drop in Walmart and a 3.8 percent
decline in Cisco Systems.
A Bear Market requires a 30 % drop in the Dow Jones
Industrial Average after 50 calendar days or a 13 %
decline after 145 calendar days.
U.S. Equities — U.S. equity markets all saw
declines this week, with the Dow Jones
Industrial Average falling by 0.71 % to close at 23,933 and is now down 3.18 % on a year - to - date basis.
The vacation from volatility equity investors seemed to be so enjoying came to an abrupt end during the first week of February when stocks sold off aggressively as evidenced by an 8.5 %
decline in the Dow Jones
Industrial Average (the Dow) between January 26 and February 5.
Since making new highs last year, the Dow Jones
Industrial Average is down 12.8 %; the Standard & Poor's 500 Index has
declined 12.5 %; the Nasdaq Composite Index has dropped 16.9 %; and the Dow Jones Transportation
Average, since December 29, 2014, has plummeted 23.5 %.