Stock market pullbacks and corrections

Markets continue to dive with Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index falling into correction territory – down more than 10 percent from its peak in late January – ending a bull market up 287 percent since March 2009

Market pullback – 5% decline 
Correction – 10% decline
Bear market – 20%-plus downturn


Feb 2018: 2,581.00. Decline of 10.2% from all-time high of 2,872.87 on Jan 26

S&P 500 index
3,000
2,500   Financial crisis
2,000
1,500 
1,000 
500    2008   09    10    11    12 13 14 15 16 17 18

FALL -56.8%
666.79
-16.0%
-19.4% 
-9.8%
-9.9%
-7.7% 
-5.8%
-5.8%
-6.9% 
-12.4% 
-13.3% 




Sources: Yahoo Finance, Yardeni Research, Inc.      © GRAPHIC NEWS