By The Numbers
- Diving Partridge Demand Can't Keep Lid on '12 Days' Cost
- Tiger Woods Wants to Protect Family Privacy: Agent
- U.S. Stocks Fall on Dubai Worries
- Black Friday at Best Buy
- Halftime Report: Dubai - First Ripple Of Larger Crisis?
- Longer Lines, Fuller Carts This Black Friday
- Obama's Emission Reduction Pledge Paints Future for Autos
- Is Super Bowl Halftime Act Too Old?
- EA Sports Hopes to Pump Up Sales Through Pop-Up Locations
- 8 Retailers that Gain During the Holidays
MOST SHARED
- US Shoppers Spent Less Over Black Friday: NRF
- Tiger Woods Wants to Protect Family Privacy: Agent
- Dubai Stocks Shed 7%, Abu Dhabi Tumbles 8%
- South Korea Sees Exports Bouncing, but Risks Remain
- Dubai's Nakheel Seeks Suspension $5.25 Billion in Bonds
- US Senator Opposes Fed Chief Bernanke Renomination
- Dubai is Harsh Reminder of Prolonged Global Recovery
- Sands China Ends 10.2% Lower in Hong Kong Debut
- Japan Won't Intervene to Weaken Yen: Finance Minister
RSS FEED
Market Data Analyst
![]() |
Ap |
Exactly 22 years ago today, the markets took their worst 1-day percentage drop in history as the Dow and S&P 500 shed 22.6% and 20.5% respectively during Black Monday. We have come a long way since then as the markets are trading today at new intraday highs for 2009. The Dow [.DJI
Loading...
()
] and S&P [.SPX
Loading...
()
] hit intraday peak levels of 10,117.21 and 1100.02 today, up ~481% and ~388% since Black Monday. Note that the worst point drops ever for the Dow and S&P happened last year on September 29, 2008 when the Dow lost 778 points and the S&P fell 106.
Here is how some major U.S. and world indices have performed since Black Monday:
U.S. Major Indexes Worst 1-day % Declines:
U.S. Major Indexes Performance since Black Monday (10/19/1987):
-Dow[.DJI
Loading...
()
] is up 475%
-S&P [.SPX
Loading...
()
]is up 383%
-Nasdaq Composite [COMP
Loading...
()
]is up 499%
Major International Indexes Performance since 10/19/1987:
-Germany's DAX [DE;DAXX
Loading...
()
] is up 335%
-UK's FTSE [GB;FTSE
Loading...
()
]is up 153%
-China's Hang Seng [HK;HSI
Loading...
()
]is up 552%
-Japan's Nikkei [JP;N225
Loading...
()
]is down -60%
-Australia's ASX 200 Index [AU;XJO
Loading...
()
] is up 134%
Send comments to:
- These four sectors will be the next to lead the market.
- Zhu Zhu Pets are this year's must-have toy, fetching $40 or more on eBay.
- From the why-didn’t-I-think-of-that file, we present Jason Sadler, a man whose job is wearing T-shirts.
- It may be the most unusual guide to business you'll read.
- Shopping for a gadget hound? The choices can be baffling. Here are a few that should be a hit.
- "The Who" will be the halftime act for Super Bowl XLIV on Feb. 7 in Miami. Is the NFL behind the times?












