How long till Dow Jones hits 40,000 and S&P 5,000?

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

Dow above 50,000!

[samhexum]

I watched Cher speaking at Sonny's funeral tonight on YouTube.  The Dow lost over 200 points to 7531 that day.  I hope it eventually recovered.

[Luv2play]

The Dow Jones could hit 40,000 soon, on the way back down. 😆

[+ Vegas_Millennial]

1 hour ago, Luv2play said:

The Dow Jones could hit 40,000 soon, on the way back down. 😆

It has room to fall...2025 was a spectacular year!

[Nue2thegame]

9 minutes ago, Vegas_Millennial said:

It has room to fall...2025 was a spectacular year!

Probably and hopefully not to 40,000. 

[Luv2play]

3 hours ago, Nue2thegame said:

Probably and hopefully not to 40,000. 

Back in 2008 when markets crashed spectacularly, someone said “this is when money goes back to its rightful owners”. We could see it again. 

[Lotus-eater]

On 2/24/2026 at 3:48 PM, Luv2play said:

Back in 2008 when markets crashed spectacularly, someone said “this is when money goes back to its rightful owners”. We could see it again. 

I guess the short sellers who did very well were the "rightful owners."

[Luv2play]

3 hours ago, Lotus-eater said:

I guess the short sellers who did very well were the "rightful owners."

As I recall it was the margin buyers who got crushed. Relatively few short sellers came out winners. But on the latter I could be wrong. Memories fade. 
But the banks took a beating. I always thought that Obama should not have bailed them out to the extent he did. 

[Lotus-eater]

8 minutes ago, Luv2play said:

As I recall it was the margin buyers who got crushed. Relatively few short sellers came out winners. But on the latter I could be wrong. Memories fade. 
But the banks took a beating. I always thought that Obama should not have bailed them out to the extent he did. 

The banks faced a liquidity crunch. Contrary to popular belief, financial firms (excluding the car companies) paid back the TARP funds with interest, which, along with asset sales, netted taxpayers about $50 billion.

[topunderachiever]

On 2/24/2026 at 12:37 PM, Nue2thegame said:

Probably and hopefully not to 40,000. 

10% (45,000) is considered a "correction". 

20% (down to 40,000) is a Bear Market and 

"typically occur once every 5–7 years, with major historical examples including 1929 (Great Depression), 1987 ("Black Monday"), 2000–2002 (Dot-com bubble), 2008 (Financial Crisis), 2020 (COVID-19), and 2022 (inflation/rate hikes). These declines are often triggered by economic recessions, geopolitical crises, or rapid asset bubble bursts." 

[Kevin Slater]

2 hours ago, topunderachiever said:

10% (45,000) is considered a "correction". 

20% (down to 40,000) is a Bear Market and 

"typically occur once every 5–7 years, with major historical examples including 1929 (Great Depression), 1987 ("Black Monday"), 2000–2002 (Dot-com bubble), 2008 (Financial Crisis), 2020 (COVID-19), and 2022 (inflation/rate hikes). These declines are often triggered by economic recessions, geopolitical crises, or rapid asset bubble bursts." 

Every five to seven years, people forget that the Dow has a correction every five to seven years.

Kevin Slater

[Luv2play]

6 minutes ago, Kevin Slater said:

Every five to seven years, people forget that the Dow has a correction every five to seven years.

Kevin Slater

Monday’s market opening  should be interesting. At this point any scenario is possible. The next 36 hours will tell. 

[Luv2play]

22 hours ago, Lotus-eater said:

The banks faced a liquidity crunch. Contrary to popular belief, financial firms (excluding the car companies) paid back the TARP funds with interest, which, along with asset sales, netted taxpayers about $50 billion.

The financial firms that survived paid back. There were others that collapsed and took investors’ funds with them. As Warren Buffet said at the time, when the tide goes out you find out who is naked. Some were found to have evaded regulations but faced no repercussions. Homeowners were less fortunate and millions lost their homes. 

[EZEtoGRU]

I’m astounded that we haven’t seen a correction yet on the Dow since the middle east events started over the weekend.  I’m wondering if the markets even operate independently anymore…or are they being manipulated.   In normal times, there would have been a huge pullback seems to me. 

[topunderachiever]

53 minutes ago, EZEtoGRU said:

 I’m wondering if the markets even operate independently anymore…or are they being manipulated.  

Manipulated by what? or whom?  

[mike carey]

10 hours ago, EZEtoGRU said:

I’m astounded that we haven’t seen a correction yet on the Dow since the middle east events started over the weekend.  I’m wondering if the markets even operate independently anymore…or are they being manipulated.   In normal times, there would have been a huge pullback seems to me. 

I suspect 'the markets' (code for the herd of lemmings on Wall Street) think that the effects are predictable and likely to be short lasting. Is the 'smart money' (a term used with considerable caution) reflected in the gold price rather than the stock market? And if it's Wall Street, which index?

[EZEtoGRU]

11 hours ago, mike carey said:

I suspect 'the markets' (code for the herd of lemmings on Wall Street) think that the effects are predictable and likely to be short lasting. Is the 'smart money' (a term used with considerable caution) reflected in the gold price rather than the stock market? And if it's Wall Street, which index?

The DOW is flat today…up a little…down a little whilst chaos reigns in the Middle East. I still don’t get the disconnect between the stock market and global events currently. 

[+ BOZO T CLOWN]

1 hour ago, EZEtoGRU said:

The DOW is flat today…up a little…down a little whilst chaos reigns in the Middle East. I still don’t get the disconnect between the stock market and global events currently. 

"flat"? It's noon and the Dow is up 325 points. Hardly what anyone would call flat.
NASDAQ and S & P each up over 1%.  
Big gains across the board...

BTC
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[mike carey]

Dow movements in the last 24 hours are very important, meaningful.

[EZEtoGRU]

Some posters seem to not understand how the stock market operates. It’s a dynamic exchange where stock shares are continually being bought and sold. The value of a given market (say the Dow) changes continuously throughout the day.  It can be up at one moment and then be down five minutes later.  Some posters seemingly understand that the market is static and once you look at the value at a given time during the trading day, that’s how it remains or has remained through the entire course of the day.