How Sick Is the Stock Market?

Re:How Sick Is the Stock Market? by brianpan on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @07:16PM (#10120066)

How many times in 100 years was this true, besides the 2 times you mentioned? There is risk everywhere. We can only hope to take on risk for a goal after doing our due diligence to understand and mitigate the risk.

Also, the DJIA is a pretty terrible index.

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Re:How Sick Is the Stock Market? by Ologn on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @09:34AM (#10122713)

Fine I'll use the S & P 500.

It opened 1969 at 102. It opened 1979 at 99.71.

Adjusted for inflation, the SP500 had a peak in 1968, then dipped and did not return to this real level until 1992. 22 years.

The S&P 500 entered 2000 at 1425. Not until 2013 would it open the year at or above that. Adjusted for inflation, it did not hit its 2000 level until the turn of this year. It has been tanking the past few days.

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