S&P 500 Snapshot: Down 5.86% YTD

The S&P 500 held steady for the first few days of the week, only to react to COVID-related news on Thursday and Friday. The index is down 5.86% YTD and up 1.31% from Thursday, June 11.

The U.S. Treasury puts the closing yield on the ten-year note as of June 12 at 0.71%. The two-year note is at 0.19%.

Here's a snapshot of the index going back to 2010.

A Perspective on Drawdowns

Here's a snapshot of record highs and selloffs since the 2009 trough.

Here's a table with the number of days of a 1% or more change in either direction, and the number of days of corrections (down 10% or more from the record high) going back to 2013.

Here is a more conventional log-scale chart with drawdowns highlighted.

Here is a linear scale version of the same chart with the 50- and 200-day moving averages.

A Perspective on Volatility

For a sense of the correlation between the closing price and intraday volatility, the chart below overlays the S&P 500 since 2007 with the intraday price range. We've also included a 20-day moving average to help identify trends in volatility.