Did stocks bottom in mid-June?

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Only once have stocks slumped past earlier low again after recovering over half their losses

The extent of the stock market rally since June suggests that might have been the bottom of the recent slide in valuations. Photograph: EPAEver since stocks bottomed in mid-June, strategists have been asking: was that a bottom, or was itbottom? The extent of the rally – over the last two months, the S&P 500 has regained more than half of its bear market losses – increasingly suggests the latter scenario is more likely.

Data from CFRA strategist Sam Stovall shows that since 1946, there have been 19 occasions when stocks retraced more than half their losses following a large market decline . Stovall found only one instance where stocks subsequently endured another sell-off that exceeded the prior low. That one exception was during the brutal 1973-74 bear market, when bulls’ hopes were dashed by the breakout of the Arab-Israeli war and the subsequent oil embargo.

Of course, this doesn’t mean investors won’t endure further nerve-racking moments in coming months. Stocks may fall again and mid-June’s lows might well be challenged. However, if history is a guide, those lows will hold. To answer the original question, June 16th′s low wasn’t just a bottom; it’s likely to prove

 

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