Unlike the recent year all three three major US stock indices, Dow Jones Industrial Average, NASDAQ Composite and S&P 500 performed really poor for the. whole year. In fact, the year 2022 was the worst year for DJI, NASDAQ and S&P 500 since 2008, with NASDAQ taking the worst hit with about -35% loss compared to S&P 500’s loss of about -19% and Dow Jones’ loss of about -7.5%.
The chart below shows the full journey of the three US indices’ performance starting. from 1st. Jan to the last day of market in 2022.
Comparing the returns of Dow Jones, NASDAQ, S&P 500 since 2001
We can understand how bad the performance of Dow Jones, NASDAQ, S&P 500 in 2022, by comparing their returns over the years since 2001. We can easily see that the heavy loss of these indices is very similar to their performance in the years 2008 and 2002. No other years had such a poor performance.
