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It has now been over a year since the S&P 500 had a one-day drop of 2%+.
- 3rd longest streak since 2000. - The S&P went 949 trading days (3.76 years!) from 5/19/03 to 2/26/07 without a one-day drop of 2%+. Source: bespoke
6 out of the top 20 stocks in the SP500 this year are in the Semiconductor space
Nvidia once again leading everything w/ a gain of +66%. $NVDA . Source: Charlie Bilello
The SP500 has now traded green in both January and February
When that has occurred (data going back to 1950), the $SPX finished the rest of the year higher 27/28 times with the final 10 months being higher 26/28 times. Seems pretty good for Bulls! 🐂 Source: barchart, H/T Ryan Detrick
Despite the surge in market-cap indices, small-cap stocks remain deeply entrenched in a bear market, now down 27% from their recent peak.
Source: Bloomberg, Tavi Costa
The Magnificent 7 are now up ~1,700% since 2015 compared to the S&P 500's ~140% gain.
Even the Nasdaq Composite Index, the largest tech index in the world, is up just ~230% since 2015. Source: DB, TME
The chart is a log graph of $1 invested in the S&P 500 in the year 1950 by Personal Finance Club.
They listed all of the market crashes that were 15% or more. They removed the Y-axis, but it shows $1 growing to over $1,000! Note that there were many -10% corrections over the period but that only -15% and worse are listed below
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