The 1973/74 Bear Market in Equities… – Commodity Research Group

May 6, 2016 by Jim Colburn Leave a Comment

From the Irrelevant Investor: (http://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2016/05/04/the-worst-bear-market-that-nobody-ever-talks-about/)

“The longest bear market didn’t begin in 1929 or 2007, but rather on January 11, 1973 [i]. The 437 days from peak-to-trough gave birth to many well-known value investors and also left in its wake a generation of brokers that would never return to Wall Street.”

Here is the chart:

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