Worst Dow Jones Junes Since Depression

By Paul Kedrosky · Thursday, June 26, 2008 ·

I'm indebted to Bloomberg for first pointing this out, but if the current month ended today we'd be down 9.4% and have locked in the worst June since the Great Depression. Check the following chart for the painful picture.

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Granted, June 2008 isn't in the top 30 bad months of all time, so let's keep our heads on, but if it feels like it's been a nasty, nasty month, that's because it has been.