WhyItDropped

Nasdaq · June 29, 2010

The day consumer confidence collapsed

-3.85%

single-day change vs previous close

Part of a longer stretch

Two months of Greece and a flash crash

near the end of it · 2010-04-23 → 2010-07-02, -17.33% over the whole period

What happened that day?

  • The Nasdaq fell 3.85% on the day
  • US consumer confidence came in far worse than expected, with the question about job prospects especially weak
  • The same day a leading indicator for China was revised down. A picture formed of the world economy cooling together
  • Whether the post-crisis recovery was stalling was the market's theme in this period. Talk of a second bottom was common
  • The low of this correction came three days later, on 2 July
  • The second bottom never came; that autumn further Fed support restarted the advance

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.