Recent Market Performance (10/27/09)

The S&P 500 is down about 3% since October 19th, as the bull market charge higher has taken at least a breather over the past week or so. As shown in the table at right, the Materials sector is down the most since 10/19 with a decline of 5.68%, followed by Financials (-4.50%), Industrials (-4.15%), and Consumer Discretionary (-3.50%). Technology is down the least since 10/19, but it is really struggling today (Nasdaq down 26 points).

While the index is down 2.89% since 10/19, the average S&P 500 stock is down 4.32%, which means investors are probably getting hit a little harder than the broad market indices show. Below is a list of the 25 worst performing stocks in the S&P 500 since 10/19. As shown, MI is down the most at -25.35%, followed by MBI, WFR, BSX, ATI, CIEN, and GNW.

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While it's not surprising, the highest beta stocks are getting killed during the current pullback. As shown below, the 50 stocks in the S&P 500 with the highest betas are down 8.72% since 10/19, while the 50 stocks with the lowest betas are only down 2.11%.

Comments

[JerryNM09:]

Is there anything fundamentally wrong with CIEN?

Oct 28 07:44 AM