Calendar days to bottom
US terrorist attacks
2001
Calendar days to recovery
-19.8%
Pearl Harbor attack
1941
-12.9%
-4.3%
-3.0%
-6.0%
N. Korea invades S. Korea
1950
Pearl Harbour is an outlier. Recovery time improves as you near the modern era.
In fact, on average, it takes only…
Drawdown
Tet offensive
1968
Source: LPL Research, S&P Dow Jones Indices, CFRA, 01/06/20. We illustrate six random examples of the 21 incidents examined. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
-11.6%
Days to full market recovery
Munich Olympics
1972
Bombing of Syria
2017