Market Correction 2023
You probably saw the news: On October 27, the S&P 500 officially slid into a market correction. A correction is when the markets decline 10% or more from a recent peak. In the S&P’s case, the “recent peak” was on July 31, when the index was at 4,588.1 On Friday, the index closed at 4,117 – a drop of 10.2%.1