S&P 500 · November 28, 2011
The day holiday spending came through
+2.92%
single-day change vs previous close
Part of a longer stretch
After 'whatever it takes'
early in it · 2011-10-03 → 2013-03-28, +42.75% over the whole period
What happened that day?
- The S&P 500 rose 2.92% on the day
- Thanksgiving weekend sales came in at a record. A domestic figure landing while the market was pinned down by Europe was read as significant
- What marks the US market of this period is that it swung daily on European news while the American economy itself was not bad
- Unemployment was falling and earnings were fine. The problem was across the Atlantic
- Two days later six central banks agreed to supply dollars cheaply to European banks, which set the rebound
- The advance that began here ran to March 2013, when the S&P 500 regained its 2007 high
Sources
Every figure on this page is recomputed from the original daily closing prices and checked against them at build time. The account of what happened is written from the sources listed above.