The federal Storm Prediction Center has released its latest tally of tornadoes and deaths for 2011, with the current count of 523 now making
this the worst year since 1950..
In the U.S., the Dow Jones lost nearly 37 percent of its total value in 2008, making
it the worst year since the onset of the Great Depression.
For example, if you have a global portfolio and rebalance at the end of every year, then in 2013 you would have been selling U.S. and international stocks (which enjoyed lofty returns of 30 % to 40 %) and buying bonds, which had
their worst year since 1999.
Despite another year of flat performance from the S&P GSCI, it was a roller - coaster year with energy holding up the broad index while gold had
its worst year since 1981.
Many funds, including staunch investors in Valeant such as William Ackman of Pershing Square, are having
their worst year since the financial crisis.
The # 158.4 m is the sector's second -
worst year since BookScan records began in 1998.
The collapse in Chinese growth helped commodities class have
its worst year since 2008, with the Bloomberg commodities index falling 26 % in 2015.
Last year, the sector «had perhaps
the worst year since the recession,» the study notes, and even the industry's online efforts aren't really helping much.
This team has gotten
worse every year since he's been here.
Started following the Pens as a kid during the early 90s, been a huge fan through the good and
bad years since then.
Not exact matches
With 2015 shaping up as the
worst year for investing
since the Great Recession, investors are wondering where to turn.
Yields on the securities have climbed to their highest levels in six
years, and total returns were negative 2.6 percent for the first two months of 2018, making for the
worst start of a
year for the asset class
since 1981.
Stocks plunged Tuesday, making it one of the
worst days on Wall Street so far this
year and sending the major indexes to their lowest levels
since early September.
The virtual currency was the
worst - performing currency of the
year, plummeting by more than 56 percent
since January and 72 percent
since last November, according to Bloomberg.
The PC market itself has gone straight down the toilet in the nine
years since the acquisition, with 2013 seeing the
worst decline in its history, but Lenovo emerged as the king of the whole stinky pile.
«The HP board just made the
worst personnel decision
since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many
years ago,» he wrote, invoking one of the most infamous board blunders in tech industry lore.
Cathay shares have risen by 29.4 percent
since the start of January despite the airline in August posting its
worst first - half loss in 20
years.
It did first move to what it described as a more «guarded» view in 2015, which proved prescient with 2015 being the
worst year for stocks
since 2011.
Its retail sales saw their
worst annual decline last
year since 2002.
The bread - and - butter of the company — PC software — is in a free fall, having its
worst year in 2013
since analysts started tracking the market.
& # 9660 Big Oil has been seen as a corporate
bad boy ever
since the U.S. Supreme Court broke up John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil in 1911, but its reputation would hit a new low 99
years later.
Governors seeking re-election this
year took office at the end of the
worst downturn
since the Great Depression.
Facebook is down more than 12 %
since news of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke on March 16, and last month was the social media giant's
worst in four
years.
That's looked like an awfully
bad bet
since the oil - price plunge of 2014, although the winnings sure were rolling in for a few
years there.
It was the
worst year - over-
year drop in PC sales
since 1994 (so, probably ever).
Since last
year, however, things have grown
worse.
Broad dollar strength and a rout in commodity prices have seen the ringgit tumble to levels not seen
since the Asian Financial Crisis, making it the region's Asia's
worst - performing currency with losses exceeding 9 percent
year - to - date.
Nickel set for biggest weekly increase
since April 2009 Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches record on Thursday Gold heading for
worst week in a month Largest increase in 30 -
year Treasury yields
since 2009 Italian bonds are poised for
worst three - week selloff
since 2011 Emerging - market stocks set for biggest three - day slide
since August 2015 Mexico's peso plunges 12 percent in three daysCommodities
And it is almost exactly five
years since the markets and economies that were
worst affected began their gradual path to recovery.
House prices in London have slipped by 1.5 percent over the past
year, according to Rightmove in the
worst annual fall
since 2009.
The S&P closed Monday at 2,012, after falling 31 points, and the Dowwas at 17,148, after losing 276 points in its
worst first trading day of any
year since 2008.
On the other end of the investing spectrum, the average annual returns on bonds
since 1926 was just 5.5 percent on average, with a 32.6 percent gain in the best
year and an 8.1 percent loss in the
worst, according to Vanguard data.
Since Freston's ouster, as well as a plethora of lawsuits,
bad press, lost talent and internal battles, Viacom stock has wallowed near five -
year lows.
Rising Treasury yields are driving the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index to the highest
since February, leading to the
worst three - day selloff in five
years for developing - world currencies, which caused central banks to intervene.
Ryan Detrick of LPL Financial has found that
since 1950, the
worst week for the S&P 500 has on average been the 38th week in a given
year.
«December is the only month
since 1928 that has never posted the
worst performance of the
year,»...
We find that
year - over-
year growth in ECRI's Weekly Leading Index (WLI) remains in a cyclical downturn (top line in chart) and, as of early March, is near its
worst reading
since July 2009.
Of course, that could just be throwing good money after
bad, given it's been roughly twenty
years since a country stepped up to buy a Candu.
During the
worst market
year since 1923, the conservative portfolio would have lost the least — 17.67 %, while the aggressive portfolio would have lost the most — 60.78 %.
Now, 12
years later, I've once again found myself packing up my car and running from a disaster
worse than anything I've seen
since Katrina.
Bad news if you're in the market for a mortgage,
since rates are tied to the 10
year.
Yes, Apple is making some questionable behavior, safari exclusivity on iPhone could be
worst than IE on Windows
years ago but
since no 95 % of people use iPhones but merely 1 % it should be no concern... yet.
The problem has only gotten
worse in the three
years since the report was last produced, state officials said.
ExxonMobil was the
worst performer, with the stock declining more than 15 percent
since the start of the
year.
Oil prices have plunged 12 %
since Tuesday - the
worst three - day run in a
year.
It's had this sort of terrible trajectory straight into the ground and it's basically halved over two
years and now it's one of those stocks that everybody hates because it's one of those stocks that everybody held a couple of
years ago and I remember how
badly they've all been burnt on the reason for buying two
years ago was that it had this kind of stellar earnings growth that fat toad and the earnings have basically been falling
since then that looks like they got to continue to fall for another 12 months two
years.
After
years of tepid productivity growth, the U.S. economy saw an outright drop in output per hour in the second quarter of 2016, marking «what is now the
worst run
since 1979,» says Morgan Stanley Global Economist Elga Bartsch.
That's
bad, because
since Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced on June 18 a potential 2014 sunset to the central bank's quantitative easing program, 10 -
year treasuries have jumped from 2.2 percent to 2.57 percent.
This is the highest level
since 2009, which was the
worst year of the financial crisis.
This
year the B / D model has added 879,000 jobs and that figure should be 992,000, during the
worst employment environment
since the «Great Depression», which is simply beyond belief.