Daily #117 stock chart answers — October 29, 2026

With inflation squeezing household budgets in the summer of 2022, investors crowded into Dollar General on the belief that shoppers trading down to discount chains would keep its tills ringing. This August peak turned out to be the high-water mark before higher costs hit its own core customers and the shares fell 45.2% over the years that followed.

After Bear Stearns collapsed in March, much of Wall Street still believed Goldman Sachs had hedged its way out of the subprime mortgage mess. By July the rot across the banking sector was spreading too fast for even the sharpest desk on the street to escape the selling.

The post-election rally of late 2016 dragged Lowe's off its autumn lows, even as jumping bond yields and climbing mortgage rates raised doubts about the US housing boom. With money rotating hard into banks and industrials, home-improvement stocks still had work to do to hold the bounce.

Through the summer of 2008, investors treated aerospace and defence giants like RTX as a safe harbour while the banks unravelled. Once the September credit freeze spread from Wall Street to the wider economy, even the industrial shelters gave way.

After a brutal crude glut that crushed American drillers, OPEC had just agreed to cut production and put a floor under oil prices. Occidental had spent the autumn drifting lower with the rest of the Permian patch right before buyers stepped back into the sector.