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Six of the world’s biggest exchanges and the time on each floor right now.

  • New York NYSE Closed for the day 19:59 Closed
  • London LSE Opens 08:00 00:59 Closed
  • Frankfurt Xetra Opens 09:00 01:59 Closed
  • Tokyo TSE Closes 15:30 09:59 Open
  • Hong Kong HKEX Opens 09:30 08:59 Closed
  • Sydney ASX Closes 16:00 11:59 Open

Regular hours in local time. Public holidays are not shown.

Our desks

Reported daily. Pick the one that moves your money.

The long view

Headlines move markets by the hour. A century of the S&P 500 tells a calmer story: crashes happen, and patience has paid for every one of them.

Decades that paid

  • 9 decades ended higher
  • 2 ended lower

Both losing decades held a crash and a recovery that came after the decade closed.

Deepest drawdowns

  • Wall Street Crash 1929 −86%
  • Financial Crisis 2008 −57%
  • Dot-com Bubble Burst 2000 −49%
  • Oil Embargo 1973 −48%
  • COVID Crash 2020 −34%

Peak-to-trough falls. Every one was recovered in full.

Return by decade

+18
'20
-1
'30
+9
'40
+19
'50
+8
'60
+6
'70
+17
'80
+18
'90
-1
'00
+14
'10
+7
'20

Average yearly return of the S&P 500, in percent.

$1, compounded

$41,593 from $1 in 1920, before dividends

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