June 12, 2008
Higher prices dominated the day, and then started to fall, briefly dipping into the red, and then sustaining their plus edge at the close. While the gains were less than one half of a percent, the NASDAQ closed higher for the first time since last Thursday.
However, the NASDAQ index, up .43 percent today, has done much better in the past when recovering after four straight declines. Such closes occurred 28 times since 2000, and their median gain was .77 percent, almost twice as large as today.
This same picture holds for the other two indices as well. The S&P500, coming of three straight declines, edged up .33 percent. That is one half of the median rise of .68 percent, recorded in 77 such closes since 2000.
The DJIA gain of .48 percent is a bit smaller than its median of .58 percent for the 300 times it closed higher after a negative gain.
DJIA .48 percent
NASDAQ .43 percent
S&P500 .33 percent
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