SP500 Recessions

Stock High Date	Stock High	Months (Recession Start)	Recession Start %	Months (High to Low)	Stock Low %	Months Recession End	Recession End %	Notes
1/1/1953	26.66	6.00	-8.4	8.00	-14.8	16.00	7.5	Post Korean War inflationary period Rapid decrease on defense spending High interest rates
7/15/1957	49.13	0.00	-4.5	3.00	-20.7	8.00	-13.1	Decrease in government spending Large production decline Increase in unemployment
8/3/1959	60.71	7.00	-7.1	14.00	-14.0	17.00	1.3	Steel strike: industrial production fall-off Decrease in foreign dependence on US goods High unemployment
12/2/1968	109.37	11.00	-17.4	17.00	-37.3	22.00	-24.4	High inflation Decline in government spending Oppressive interest rates and scarcity of credit
1/8/1973	121.74	9.00	-13.5	20.00	-49.9	25.00	-30.8	Oil Crisis:  A quadrupling of oil prices by OPEC Watergate scandal Vietnam War
10/1/1979	112.16	3.00	-2.0	5.00	-16.0	9.00	5.1	1979 energy crisis Tight monetary policy in the United States to control inflation
11/24/1980	141.96	7.00	-8.6	20.00	-28.0	23.00	0.1	1979 energy crisis Tight monetary policy in the United States to control inflation
7/7/1990	369.68	0.00	-0.6	3.00	-20.3	7.00	1.4	Industrial production and manufacturing trade sales decreased Savings and loan scandals
3/20/2000	1552.87	11.00	-20.6	17.00	-39.2	20.00	-27.9	The collase of the dot com bubble Sept 11 attacks Corporate accounting scandals
1/7/2002	1176.97	4.00	-9.3	9.00	-34.7	18.00	-17.0	The collapse of the dotcom bubble
10/11/2007	1576.09	6.00	-10.0	16.00	-57.7	19.00	-40.2	Liquidity shortfall in US banking system Collapse of housing market and their MBS
	Averages	5.82	-9.29	12.00	-30.23	16.73	-12.54