When Will the Stock Market Recover? - Updated Each Day

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 closed at all-time highs on October 9, 2007. Then both indices began their historic slides. The NASDAQ Composite Index has been on the downside since it peaked on March 10, 2000.

When will these three popular indices recover to their all-time closing highs?

The following table includes the number of years required for each index to return to its record close. The algorithm used to compute the required time period includes the current price, the target price and three different annual rates of return for future stock gains - four, eight and twelve percent. A four percent annual rate of return is a conservative estimate. An eight percent return represents a long-term historical average rate of return for stocks. And a twelve percent return is an aggressive value.

The required times and current daily closes are updated each day using the closing daily prices from finance.yahoo.com. The target prices remain fixed from day to day.

Stock Market Recovery - Number of Years
	Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI)	S&P 500 (^GSPC)	Nasdaq (^IXIC)
Current Price (Daily close)	10,741.98	1,159.90	2,374.41
Target Price (Record close)	14,164.53	1,565.15	5,048.62
Number Years - 4% Return	7.05	7.64	19.23
Number Years - 8% Return	3.59	3.89	9.80
Number Years - 12% Return	2.44	2.64	6.66

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Run Mar-20-2010.

When Will the Stock Market Recover? - Updated Each Day

When Will the Stock Market Recover? - Updated Each Day