One day after rallying up more than 400 points, the Dow Jones Industrial average was pummeled again Wednesday, shedding 519 points, or more than 4% of its total value, as investors unloaded shares across the board.
The Nasdaq was similarly abused, plunging 101 points (4%) and the S&P 500 shaved off 51 points, or 4.4%.
Here's a closer look at just how bad it was for investors and traders Wednesday:
The Dow Jones Industrial average:
-- Down 519.83 points, or 4.62%, to 10719.94
-- Down 11 of the last 14 trading days.
-- Today’s drop took back yesterday’s entire 429.92 points advance.
-- This is the third consecutive trading day of 400+ points moves; the last time this occurred was during the three-day period ended November 21, 2008.
-- Today’s points drop is The Dow’s ninth largest in its history.
-- Lowest close since September 23, 2010.
-- An intraday high of 11228.00 occurred at 9:30:00 today.
-- An intraday low of 10686.49 occurred at 15:58:43 today, representing a decrease of 553.28 points, or 4.92%.
-- The DJIA dropped 191.70 points, or 1.76%, in the final hour of trading.
-- The DJIA dropped 127.03 points, or 1.17%, in the final 30 minutes of trading.
-- All 30 component stocks closed down today and have done so seven times previously in 2011.
-- Today’s best performing stocks in the index: CSCO (-2.46), PFE (-4.16), VZ (-4.77), AA (-4.84), INTC (-5.07).
-- Today's worst performing stocks in the index: IBM (-61.08), BA (-34.13), MMM (-33.75), UTX (-31.26), CAT (-30.05).
-- Down 3444.59 points, or 24.32%, from its record close of 14164.53 on October 9, 2007.
-- Up 3.29% from 52 weeks ago.
-- Up 63.74% from its 12-year closing low of 6547.05 on March 9, 2009.
-- Down 16.32% from its 2011 closing high of 12810.54 on April 29.
-- Month-to-date: down 11.72%.
-- Year-to-date: down 7.41%.
-- The market capitalization of the DJIA fell $154.5B today.
The Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index:
-- Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index, 11644.49 (prelim)*, down 525.03 points, or 4.31%, or approximately $618 billion in market capitalization.
-- Down in 11 of the last 13 trading sessions.
-- Gave back nearly 90% of yesterday’s 589.18 points advance.
-- Down 4100.90 points, or 26.05% (approximately $5.5 trillion in market cap), from its record close of 15745.39 on October 9, 2007.
-- Up 71.24% (approximately $5.7 trillion in market cap), from the 12-½ year closing low of 6800.08 on March 9, 2009.
-- Up 3.94% over the past 52 weeks.
-- Down 18.62% from its 2011 closing high of 14308.37 on April 29.
-- Month-to-date: down 13.86%.
-- Year-to-date: down 11.32%, or approximately $1.8 billion in market cap.
Data courtesy of Dow Jones Indexes
