The S&P 500 Is Enduring Its 5th-Worst Start to a Year Since 1928. Here's What's Happened Next 100% of the Time Following Previous Double-Digit Declines.

For more than a century, the stock market has been making patient investors notably richer. However, there's a cost of admission that comes with putting your money to work on Wall Street... and it's called volatility.Following more than two years of nearly uninterrupted optimism, the mature-stock-driven Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), widely followed S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), and growth-focused Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) have hit the skids. Since the S&P 500 hit its all-time closing high on Feb. 19, we've witnessed the Dow Jones, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite respectively lose 12.3%, 14%, and 18.8% of their value (as of the closing bell on April 17).Relative to their all-time highs, the Dow and S&P 500 are firmly in correction territory. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq Composite's tumble, as of April 8, placed the index in its first bear market since 2022.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool