Worst Dow Jones Junes Since Depression

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.

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.

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