Courtesy of Doug Short.
The S&P 500 opened higher and rallied to its record intraday high around 10 AM. After trending sideways for about an hour, the index began a steady selloff its -0.50% intraday low about 15 minutes before the closing bell. Some final trading trimmed the loss for the day to -0.41%.
Today the yield on the 10-year Note closed at 1.94%, up one bp from Friday’s close.
Here is a 15-minute chart of the past five sessions.
Here is a daily snapshot of SPY ETF, which gives a better sense of investor participation, which was rather light in advance of the mid-week release of the Advance Estimate for Q1 GDP and the latest word from the Federal Open Market Committee.
A Perspective on Drawdowns
Here’s a snapshot of selloffs since the 2009 trough.
For a longer-term perspective, here is a charts base on daily closes since the all-time high prior to the Great Recession.
