Major Indexes Break Key Support, Close At 9 Month Lows
A couple Fridays ago (1/4) I put key support as follows:
Dow: 12,700
S&P: 1400
Nasdaq: 2450
And I wrote:
I’d expect these levels to hold today. And we could even see a bounce off of them in the short term. But those are the levels to watch, in my opinion, over the next few weeks. Any sustained break below these levels would be confirmation for me of a bear market.
Well we broke through those levels decisively today with the major indexes closing at the following levels:
Dow: 12,501
S&P: 1381
Nasdaq: 2418
Those are all below the August 15th and November 26th closing lows and therefore mark 9 month closing lows on each of the major indexes.
The next level of support becomes the March lows with support as follows:
Dow: 12,000
S&P: 1375
Nasdaq: 2350
After that, the Summer ’06 lows come into play with support at:
Dow: 10,700
S&P: 1220
Nasdaq: 2000
Those levels represents drops of 14.4%, 11.6% and 17.25% on the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq, respectively.