Nikkei 225 · January 6, 1992
The first session of 1992
+3.56%
single-day change vs previous close
Part of a longer stretch
When the bad loans surfaced
midway through · 1991-03-18 → 1992-08-18, -47.29% over the whole period
What happened that day?
- On 6 January 1992 the Nikkei 225 rose 3.56% on the first session of the year
- New-year sessions often price the hope that this year will be different
- Two days later the index gave the whole move back
- 1992 kept falling until August, where the stretch found its low
- No single trigger can be pinned to this day
- In this stretch the index was 34.19% below its peak
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.