S&P sinks to bear market, stock crisis gets worse
The crisis roiling U.S. stocks went from bad to worse on Monday as the S&P 500 closed in a fresh bear market, complicating the next move by the Federal Reserve.
The broadest measure of the stock market fell 3.9% or 151 points and is now off 22% from its Jan. 4 high of 4,796.56.
The selloff has erased over $9 trillion in market value, according to Bespoke Investment Group, that’s $1.2 trillion more than during the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 the firm detailed in a research note.