Stock market crashes are rare and destructive, and an article in Barron’sreexamines the red flags leading up to 1987’s Black Monday crash, when the Dow plummeted 507.99 points, a record…
Tag: Stock Market History
Stock Market Historians on the S&P 500’s Record Highs
Amid growing uncertainty about how much farther stocks can rise as the economy recovers from the pandemic, the S&P 500 index has produced 50 record closing highs so far this…
Downdraft Could Come from Market Breadth
The wide dispersion we’re currently seeing in stocks indicates we may be headed for a dip, says CFRA chief investment strategist Sam Stovall. This according to a recent article in…
A Repeat of the Roaring ‘20s Stock Market? Don’t Count on It
While there are some striking similarities between the market landscape of 140 years ago and today, the decade ahead is “not likely to include a replay of the raging 1920s…
Robert Shiller Looks Back on the First Roaring Twenties
“It’s worth looking back more closely,” writes Robert Shiller about the “countless comments suggesting that we are entering an exuberant decade that echoes the one of a century ago.” This…
Hulbert: The Stock Market’s Future Won’t Be Like It’s Past
A study of history teaches us that “the financial markets periodically undergo profound sea changes, after which they bear little similarity with what came before.” This according to a recent…
History Says Big Tech Stocks Could Fall
Today’s FAANG stocks are likened to the Nifty Fifty of the 1960s and 1970s–a group of well-known stocks that “everyone loved despite wildly high valuations that had little basis in…
“Charging Bull” Sculptor Remembered
Sculptor Arturo Di Modica, who created the famous Charging Bull statue that has graced the streets of lower Manhattan since 1989, died on February 19 at age 80. This according…
Is the Stock Market History of the 1918-20 Pandemic Repeating Itself?
In a recent article for The Wall Street Journal, columnist Mark Hulbert argues that leaning on history to predict the effect the current pandemic will have on the markets could…
Excess Returns, Ep. 38: Four Reasons Value Investing Might Not be Dead Yet
Value investors have fallen on difficult times in the most recent decade. Value’s extended underperformance has led many to question whether the strategy still works or if it is broken…