6 Nov 2026
The S&P 500 is 6% below its record, a small autumn next to former crashes: since 1928, lone 16 of 56 drops that reached 6% went former 15%. Tech took additional of the hit. The Nasdaq is 11% downward and US part stocks 36%, as profound as their Covid fall. How lengthy a improvement takes varies fair as much: following dot-com, the S&P 500 was rear at its document in 7 years, part stocks in 18.
The S&P 500 at the near on 6 Nov 2026
Below record−6%From its document close
Thursday 5 Nov−4.4%Worst day since 4 Apr 2025
Trading days since record23Since 6 Oct 2026
Slides that went former 15%16 of 56Slides since 1928 that reached 6%
How far the S&P 500 cut below a document close
Each row runs from a document elevated to the low that followed. Eight of the 16 falls former 15% since 1928 are shown.
Daily closes to 6 Nov 2026
Mild for the S&P 500, a collision for part stocks
How far all indicator is below its document now, against the lows of its own best-known former falls. US part stocks (the PHLX Semiconductor index) are 36% downward from their 22 Jun record, as profound as their Covid fall.
Daily closes to 6 Nov 2026
After dot-com, the S&P 500 took 7 years to recover, part stocks 18
Years from all index's document near to its archetypal near rear at or complete it. Prices only: alongside dividends reinvested, most recoveries were shorter. These are worst cases, for person who bought at the record.
S&P 500NasdaqUS part stocks
Great Depression25.0 yearsBefore indexBefore index
1973 oil shock7.5 years5.7 yearsBefore index
1987 crash1.9 years1.9 yearsBefore index
Dot-com7.2 years15.1 years17.7 years
2008 crisis5.5 yearsInside dot-comInside dot-com
Covid6 months3.5 months3.5 months
20222.0 years2.3 years2.0 years
April 20254 months6.5 months1.2 years
AI sell-offNot yet: 1 month, −6%Not yet: 1 month, −11%Not yet: 4.5 months, −36%
About the data
- The S&P 500 is the cost index, without dividends, from regular closes on Yahoo Finance. Before March 1957 the sequence is its predecessor, the S&P 90.
- A autumn runs from a document near to the next record, so the 2011 autumn sits inner the 2007 to 2013 one. Its degree is the lowest near before the next record.
- "AI sell-off" is our name for the glide since the 6 October 2026 record.
