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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
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] and S&P [.SPX
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] 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:
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U.S. Major Indexes Performance since Black Monday (10/19/1987):
-Dow[.DJI
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] is up 475%
-S&P [.SPX
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]is up 383%
-Nasdaq Composite [COMP
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]is up 499%
Major International Indexes Performance since 10/19/1987:
-Germany's DAX [DE;DAXX
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] is up 335%
-UK's FTSE [GB;FTSE
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]is up 153%
-China's Hang Seng [HK;HSI
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]is up 552%
-Japan's Nikkei [JP;N225
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]is down -60%
-Australia's ASX 200 Index [AU;XJO
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] is up 134%
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