Two Percent Down Days

The S&P 500 hasn’t had a down day of 2% or more since May 19, 2003. That’s the longest streak ever according to my data which goes back to 1950. Here are the other streaks, when they ended and how many days.
11/14/06 1275 (current)
10/31/78 1168
1/8/86 1080
5/14/73 1056
7/28/69 1029
8/26/66 1008

Posted by on November 14th, 2006 at 1:14 pm


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