S&P 500 · July 20, 1983
A day one year into the bull market
+2.71%
single-day change vs previous close
What happened that day?
- On 20 July 1983 the S&P 500 rose 2.71%
- It was nearly a year up from the summer 1982 low
- The economy was climbing out of recession and company profits were recovering
- Technology led this stretch. The personal computer was just becoming a mass product
- No single trigger can be pinned to this day. It is a large up day inside a rising market
- The pullback that followed took the index 6.91% 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.