Archive for December 2018
All the biggest stocks that are now in a bear market, in one chart
There are some BIG names in bear territory right now. And the list of bear-market stocks keeps growing every day, as the Dow Jones Industrial DJIA, +0.21% , the S&P 500 SPX, -0.15% and the Nasdaq CompositeCOMP, -0.81% continue to decline sharply this week in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s latest interest-rate hike. A correction is typically defined as a…
Read MoreMore than half of S&P 500 stocks are now in a bear market
Even after the recent pain in the stock market, the S&P 500 Index is down only 3% in 2018 (excluding dividends). That’s not so bad when you consider the benchmark index rose 19% in 2017. Still, more than half of the stocks in the index are in bear-market territory, showing how broad the decline has been. A…
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