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The last time the S&P 500 posted back-to-back annual returns above 20 per cent was in the 1990s, and this raises the question — how long will it last?
You are watching: How the stock market can tank when you least expect it
Recession is the most common driver of significant losses in the stock market; you only have to look as far back as 2020 and 2008 to see that. But today with no signs of a slowdown on the horizon and leading indicators looking up, the good times should just keep rolling, right?
Not necessarily, says a report from Deutsche Bank Research. There are times when markets have toppled into a serious decline without a recession, and though they are “pretty infrequent,” their researchers found eight examples in the past 75 years that reveal common themes.
Sometimes it doesn’t take a recession, it just takes the fear of a recession.
That’s what happened in 2022, when the Federal Reserve began to clamp down on soaring inflation with aggressive interest rate hikes. Growth slowed as well, with GDP in the United States dropping from 5.7 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2021 to 1.3 per cent a year later.
A U.S. recession became the consensus forecast among economists and that’s all it took. The S&P 500 fell by 25 per cent from peak to trough.
“Ultimately, this episode is a good example of equities selling off based on fears of a recession, rather than the reality of one,” said Henry Allen, Deutsche Bank macro strategist.
Now let’s travel back to Black Monday in 1987 when the S&P 500 fell 20 per cent in one day. The carnage on Oct. 19 was part of broader decline which saw the index lose 33 per cent in less than four months, said Deutsche.
Many of the factors behind that fall exist today and one of the big ones was concern about high valuations. When it peaked in August, 1987 the S&P 500 was up 39 per cent year over year.
Today, as Noah Solomon points out in his column for the Financial Post, the S&P 500 is at its highest multiple in the postwar era, except for the tech bubble in the late 1990s.
“The four largest debacles in the history of modern markets were all preceded by peak valuations,” says Solomon.
In 1987, there were also fears about trade and budget deficits, both on the minds of investors today as president-elect Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House.
The one component that existed then and not now was a hawkish Fed.
One of the biggest falls outside of a recession was in 1961, when the S&P 500 shed 28 per cent. Again there were growing concerns about extended valuations with the CAPE ratio hitting its highest level since 1937. Growth was slowing, but was far from contracting.
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