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It's never fun to see the value of your investments go down during a market sell-off. The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC -0.33%) recently dipped into correction territory, defined as falling at least 10% from recent highs.
The markets resiliently turned it around, with all three of the stock market averages flipping from red to green later this morning.
US stock futures slide as Fed signals fewer rate cuts. Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 decline, with tech stocks struggling.
What goes up can come down. We're seeing that adage play out before our eyes with the Nasdaq Composite Index.
On this closely watched Fed day, stocks are holding their own. The three major stock market indices are widening their earlier gains as traders and investors show optimism that the Federal Reserve will do the right thing, which for now appears to be hold interest rates steady.
U.S. stocks traded higher this morning, with the Nasdaq Composite gaining over 1% on Wednesday.
Equity markets started 2025 pretty well, but things haven't been so rosy in the past couple of months. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index is down by 8% since the beginning of the year as I write this.
As much as investors might loathe the idea of rapid moves lower in the iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI -0.62%), broad-based S&P 500 (^GSPC -1.07%), and widely followed Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC -1.71%), stock market sell-offs are normal, healthy, and inevitable.
The Nasdaq-100 has been in sell-off mode since mid-February, but it officially entered correction territory this month when the losses exceeded 10% from the index's record high. However, history proves the U.S. stock market always climbs to new highs over a long enough period of time, and so the recent weakness is likely to be a buying opportunity for long-term investors.
The Nasdaq, an index that led overall stock market gains over the past two years, has done just the opposite over the past few weeks. The tech-heavy benchmark fell into correction territory, dropping more than 10% from its most recent peak on Dec. 16.
The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC -1.71%) entered market correction territory on March 6, meaning it closed more than 10% below its recent bull-market high. The index has continued to fall since then and currently trades 12% below the record high it reached in December.