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Every so often, Wall Street offers a reminder to investors that, despite popular belief, stocks don't rise in a straight line. Although the annualized return of stocks over the last century trumps all other asset classes, corrections, bear markets, and even crashes are normal, healthy, and inevitable.
Over the last two months, the flagship Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), and growth-centric Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) have all slid by a double-digit percentage. The Dow and S&P 500 have officially entered correction territory, while the Nasdaq Composite has fallen into a bear market, with a loss exceeding 20% from its all-time closing high.
But it's not just the magnitude of these declines that stands out -- it's also the recent velocity of these drops. Since April 2nd, the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite have all logged some of their steepest single-session point and percentage declines on record. For instance, the S&P 500 logged its fifth largest two-day percentage decline in history from the close of April 2 to the close on April 4, which is what qualified this move lower as a crash (even though we're no longer in an ongoing crash).