The Stock Market Is Tumbling. What Now?

The Stock Market Is Tumbling. What Now?
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on June 16, 2022, as stocks fall sharply in response to the Fed's largest rate hike since 1994. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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It has not been a lucrative year for the stock market. The S&P has fallen for a whopping 10 weeks out of the past 11. The Dow closed below 30,000 for the first time since January 2021.

If we turn to historical data for insight into the future, things don’t look much more optimistic. According to Goldman Sachs strategist Vickie Chang, the S&P 500 has dropped below 15 percent a total of 17 times since 1950. On 11 of those occasions, the stock market bottomed out only when the Federal Reserve indicated it would loosen monetary policy.