WhyItDropped

Nasdaq · May 27, 2022

Seven losing weeks finally end

+3.33%

single-day change vs previous close

Part of a longer stretch

The 2021–22 tech bear market

midway through · 2021-11-19 → 2022-12-28, -36.40% over the whole period

What happened that day?

  • On 27 May 2022 the Nasdaq rose 3.33%
  • That week ended seven straight losing weeks, the longest such run since 2001
  • An inflation reading that week came in slightly softer than expected, and hope attached to it
  • From here on, the idea that inflation might have peaked kept resurfacing. The peak did come that June
  • The index still fell for another six months. Passing a peak and coming down are different things
  • No single trigger can be pinned to this day
  • In this stretch the index was 27.18% 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.